good morning. i'm alison kosik in for christi paul this morning. >> i'm victor blackwell. we begin with breaking news overnight. another flight carrying illegal immigrants from texas touched down in southern california.

the second one this week. the passengers reportedly boarded three buss to a processing center in the san ysidro district of san diego. >> they did not go to nearby marietta where demonstrators forced the first fleet to turn back. fating another protest on the fourth of july. >> we're not going to stand for it. that's just how it is. there's thousands and millions of other people have done the right way, but for people to just come in here and ask for a free handout, that's my money. >> these protesters are involved now in what's become a passionate immigration debate reaching all. way to washington. joining us from the white house. sundayla what's the latest on what we're hearing what will be done about all of these kids. >> reporter: we've soon california become ground zero for this debate this week. it's really been a powerful image and those 100 immigrants arrivingon that flight last

night, ariving on bus, they weren't taken to california but somewhere else specifically because that small town, marietta, has become a flashpoint in this debate all week. last night protesters and counter protestors squared off outside that border control facility as we've seen in the heated debate all week. [ chanting "shame on you" ] >> reporter: meanwhile, here in the white house, while all of that goes on, nearly 3,000 miles away, the president attended a nationalization ceremony here at the white house. a powerful image watching 25 new americans be sworn in as citizens as they took their oath of allegiance, and during that ceremony, he made another pitch for immigration reform. >> if we want to keep attracting the best and bright freest from bekbrond our shores we have to fix or immigration system, which is broken and pass common sense

immigration reform. we shouldn't be making it harder for the best and brightest to come here and grow our economy here. we should be making it easier. >> victor and alison, the president didn't specifically mention the problems in california that we've seen all week, but he did sap that the ceremony is another reminder of the problems at the border. we know president obama is scheduled to be in texas next week on wednesday for a fund-raising event. in that state, rick perry, a republican, challenged the president to go ahead and visit the border while he is in texas. what is the white house saying about this? do you see the president making a side trip there while he's in texas? >> reporter: he might. i would say it's not likely at this point. i just checked with the white house this morning. they said, as of now, there is no side trips scheduled, when the president is in texas for that group of fund-raisers. the challenge is was, exact lit the r -- exactly the right word to use. perry's challenge saying

republicans would be better served using attention to passing comprehensive immigration reform instead of extending border invitations. a quirky and i would say heavy response from the white house kind of pinging rick perry there a bit. as of now, no border stops planned. interesting to see over the next few days whether political pressure mounts for president obama to do so. >> thank you very much. plenty of amazing fireworks displays across the country last night. i didn't see any of them, but take a look. ♪ gave proof through the night >> this one was in tempe, arizona, just outside of phoenix. 100,000 gathered to watch the display. beautifully clear skies for the celebration. just hours after the first sandstorm of the season blew through the area. >> talking about blowing through an area, arthur now getting a second downgrade of the morning. once a category 2 storm, this

morning was first dropped to a tropical storm. now a posttropical cyclone. >> don't relax just yet. the storm can pack a wallop for those in its path. winds as high as 65 miles per hour and drenching rain forecast for maine, also for parts of eastern canada. >> also along the eastern seaboard, things getting back to normal with residents cleaning up flooded streets, getting their lights back on and back on track with the holiday weekend plans. >> including the beach, of course. alexandra field out at jones beach on norcal long i lew yor >> reporter: take a look for yourself. only 10:00, this beach is literally crowded with thousands of people out here enjoying the sun and the warm weather and starting to soak it up. a lot of people relieved to see arthur moved up north of us now, doing less damage in its path than had been anticipated, but a lot of peoples eyes still on the coastline and the water. look out here, you see it

actually looks really calm and smooth. you don't always get there in the aftermath of a hurricane. lifeguards were out earlier this morning. they wanted to really get an eye on the water, see if rip currents were a problem, because that he can happen in the aftermath. out here, they're not seeing that. swimmers along the coast, be aware of that. you get in the water and feel a strong pull. one lifeguard described the dangers, you've heard them before, but it's worth listening to. >> the rip currents we deal with here and at other beaches actually around the united states are the number one leading cause for beachgoers concern. and rip currents what they are is basically an overabundance of water coming over our sandbars, and that water has the to go somewhere. it rushes in towards the beach and then pulls out. >> reporter: often the rip currents form when you get that break in the sandbar. common in the spring and in the early part of the summer. also, most common at low tide, but certainly a lot of people wanting to get in the water here

at jones beach today. told by lifeguards, conditions are good. it's safe here, but something always to be mindful of. alison, victor? >> alexandra field. looks like a beautiful day in new york. bring in meteorologist karen maginnis for the latest on arthur that is no more. >> hard to believe this comma shaped cloud used to be a category 2 hurricane. it slammed onshore, the central coast of north carolina, right around cape lookout, with 100 mile-per-hour winds sustained. and then it rapidly moved up towards the northeast, impacted the midatlantic and now we're watching it exit into canada. so new brunswick, nova scotia, prince edward island, expect gusty winds and potential for flooding. show you some of the flooding they saw in new bedford, massachusetts. yes, walking on the street, and the rain was really coming down. some cases, cars were submerged. there was as much as eight inches of rainfall recorded.

now we have a posttropical cyclone that is formerly known at arthur. still have pretty heavy rainfall across sections of maine. some areas will pick up three to six inches already in washington county, they've seen five inches of rainfall there and saying that a lot of trees have been reported down. a couple of roads have been washed out, but overall, fairing well agency the storm system continues to weaken. >> karen maginnis, thank you. the world cup is still going on. sadly, without team usa. that doesn't mean the american squad's new legion of fans is letting up on the love. >> including president obama who gave the team a huge shout-out in today's weekly address and offered a special nod to the goalkeeper, tim howard pap record 16 saves against belgium. >> yep. >> i want to begin today by saying a special word to the u.s. men's soccer team. who represented america so well in the past few weeks. we are so proud of you.

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this is a highway patrol officer just beating a woman in the face over and over again. he says he counted 11 punches. police are at 15. we don't know who this guy is who runs up. >> the driver is talking to sara sidner. more from los angeles. sara? >> reporter: victor and alison, the witness said he was in very heavy traffic, basically at a standstill when all of this happened right in front of him individual grow a california freeway shot by a driver stuned by what he was seeing unfold. a woman being punched over and over and over again by a california highway patrolman. >> you see it, you heard it. like thump, thump, thump and then you see her head bounce, bam, bam, on the concrete. >> how many times did he hit her? >> oh, i seen 11 on the video. he took more shots than that. i think around 15 shots to her head, and then -- >> reporter: punching? >> this is not just jabs. these are -- hooks.

those are lights out punches. those aren't like taps. >> reporter: the highway patrol report says the woman posed a danger to herself and other drivers because she was walking within traffic lanes at times and when he asked to stop, she continued ignoring the officer's command. and ultimately, she becomes physically combative, it says. >> the tape only shows a small part of what transpired. there are events that led up to this. until all of that is collected, and put into perspective, we aren't going to be able to make a determination. >> reporter: the eyewitness who goes by the name david diaz, says he saw exactly what led up to it, before he started recording. >> you see the video, the first thing you hear is me laughing. the reason why is because, before we got the video starting, they were playing like a ring around the rosy behind that red truck. a grown man and grown woman running around the truck. it's kind of like a benny hill moment. right? >> reporter: avoiding him?

>> almost like when we laugh when someone runs on the field in a baseball game. >> reporter: he said she eventually started walking towards the officer, and that is when the takedown began. >> he grabs her, and she kind of is like, you know, there's the resistance in terms of like natural reaction. and then he then grabs her, throws letter to the floor and then gets on top of her, which then you would think, okay. he's just going to wrap her up, call it a day. another day in los angeles. no. this wasn't the case. >> reporter: the chp says the woman who carried no i.d. was taken to hospital for a physical and mental evaluation. >> the report indicated the individual was not injured and the officer didn't notice injuries on the individual. >> reporter: diaz has a hard time believing that, after seeing and hearing this -- >> she didn't put up restraint. she did what anyone else would do when getting pounded. to go like this. to go like this. and now they say, she's -- it's an excuse.

we've giving too many excuses. no more rationalizing this. i posted this video, that's rye. >> we're going to make a determination what transpired in this situation and will do the right thing. >> reporter: the officer involved has been put on administrative duty while the case is investigated. the witness has not spoken with anyone from the california highway patrol and if they call him he will discuss what he saw with them. alison, xrivictor? >> sara sidner, thank you so much. >> interesting to hear the other side of this. that woman looks like she's boog us being usedpunching bag. asking about this dad and his son. a tragic accident or premed premeditated murder. >> the picture prosecutors painted of the father accused in the case sparked outrage. when you run a business, you can't settle for slow.

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about the georgia man charged with murder in his son's death in the hot suv. it involves two life insurance policy the justin harris took out. actually one came from his

employer. >> coming on the heels of an unfaithful husband in financial trouble and allege head lived a double life and spent his day sexting with a half dozen women while his son was dying. joining us now is joey jackson, a legal an legitimate at cnn, national reporter nick valencia. first, nick what have you learned about the life insurance policies that harris had on his son? >> much is being made about them and a lot of people are talking at home about them, but we need to take a step back. two policies. one from his employer, home depot. everyone employed there has a life insurance policy. wep have one here at turner. and one took out in the 2012 for $25,000. a total $27,000. this is what's revealed. through the investigation, meaning after the death of 22-month-old cooper, harris made comments to family members regarding a life insurance he has on cooper and what to do to

file for it. joey jackson can get into the it more but it may be painting a motive. maybe $27,000 is worth it to kill your son. some say that's not a lot of money. again, until proven guilty, hi friends adamant that this guy, justin harris doesn't have it in his character. >> we heard so much come out in the hear, just two searches on the internet. the searches by the mom and dad for deaths in hot cars, but then the sexting and the money and the mom's comments, this was huge. >> you know, it really is victor. because it is huge, because, remember, any case is not about one material fact. it's about a number of facts. it's about painting a portrait. it's about telling a story. and as your question implies, victor, too, what happens is there's a lot. there's more, and so what do we expect from the prosecution? this, of course, was probable cause hearing, where they're just explaining to the judge their basis for detaining him that it's lawful and want to

force the case to move on to a grand jury to indict and move forward. so we're scratching the surface. who knows what they held back and what else an investigation will reveal, but when you start to put together a life insurance policy, a troubled marriage, potential financial problems, the fact that he's going on to these sites to look at. how do i survive in prison? how do people die? hot car deaths. it really paints a portrait of someone who may have been motivated by malice to do this and also, victor, it may even point to the wife as having some culpability involved. we don't know and are a far cry away from embroiling her into this. based on what we know from his and her conduct, i think there's a lot more to come and she may be a defendant in this case when all is said and done. >> is there any evidence as this point that you've uncovered harris and his wife were having financial problems? >> victor and i have been on the story as well, as martin savitch

and looked into financial records. looked into bank statements and tried to get bank statements and couldn't find anything out of the ordinary in our background searches. in this probable cause hearing a lot came out. this $4,000 credit card debt, trying to rack up sky mile pms his wife upset at spending habits. he had recently taken over the family finances and he was in charge now. we didn't see that when asked about financial instability in the family. seemed by all appearances, alison, renting a condo in marietta. he had a good job as a web developer at home depot. she was a registered dietitian, worked in a kidney and dialysis service to provide those procedures. they seemed to be a put-together family with no financial turmoil. there was, of course, this $4,000 credit card debt. >> joey, this was essentially two hearings in one proceeding?

probable cause and the bond portion. probable cause, after all we heard, a surprise that he's, it's being moved up to superior court, but the bond hearing. are you surprised that he was denied the possibility of staying at home while they prepare for trial? flight risk? was he a danger to the community? >> not at all am i surprised about that, victor. to nick's point briefly. nick is right to be cautious. right? we don't know, and the everyone's entitled to due process. this is simply probable cause. we'll see as everything unfolds whether the prosecution has the proof through the investigation, but as to the issue of whether this person, the defendant, should be released, if you're a judge in the case, as the judge said, he's facing a minimum of 30 years. this case says, your honor, the judge, may well be at the end of the day moved up to a capital murder case where he's facing the death penalty. under those circumstances, of course, says the judge, this person would be a flight risk and maybe someone who's motivated not to return.

so based upon the gravity of the offense, based on the punishment he's facing, you will be detained and held until such time as the trial proceeds and you're either innocent or your guilt is established. >> we know there are likely more search warrants to be released and maybe we'll gelt more information about the conversations, the interviews that happened on the 18th with this boy was pulled out of that vehicle hln legalist nick and joey, thank you. >> a privilege. danger, arriving by the busloads to california, but many are saying, not in my backyard. hateful? or realistic? the arguments on both sides, ahead.

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bottom of the hour now. welcome back. i'm alison kosik in for christi paul. >> and i'm victor blackwell. stories we're watching, arthur gets a second down grade this north. once a category 2 now a post-tropical cyclone. the storm is headed for eastern canada. back in the u.s., arthur left behind flooded streets on the eastern coast. knocked out power to as many as 44,000 people in north carolina

alone. >> number two, philadelphia's fire commissioner says it's a tragic, tragic day for his city. four children killed when a massive fire tore through eight row houses early this morning. the victims were a 1-month-old baby, 4-year-old twin girls and a 4-year-old boy. they were all in the same house. police tried to rescue them, but couldn't get them out. >> number three, taliban militants claim they fired rockets at hundreds of oil tanksers at a depot west of afghanistan capital cobble. more than 400 trucks wept s w flames. it was attacked because the trucks deliver fuel for nato forces. number four, part of the popular sirius zm show fired. cumia sent racist tweets calls

the woman an animal and ranting about black history. his tweet deleted overnight but he promises to address the story online next week. and convicted killer joran van der sloot is a newlywed and about to be a new dad. married this woman in lima, peru in prison yesterday. they're having a baby in september. van der sloot is serving a 28-year-old sentence for killing another woman. once eligible to get out, he'll be extradited to the u.s. to face charges related to the 2005 case involving missing alabama teenager natalee holloway. a second flight carrying illegal immigrants from texas has now touched down in southern california. earlier this week, buses carrying passengers from the first flight were turned back by protesters in the city of marietta. some of whom said they should never have been allowed to cross the border. >> no word how many children are among the latest group of travelers. the young immigrants have been arriving in overwhelming numbers lately, rekindling the national

debate about immigration. let's talk about it. enrique voronezh, president and co-founder of the nonprofit group border angels and cnn.com commentator, author of "a darker shade of crimson." rubin, start with you. i think what really strikes a lot of people, doesn't matter what side of this argument they're on is when they see the shouting at these buses and we know that a lot of people on the buses are children. they're 12 and under. it seems in some ways callous, although many of the people say we're not yelling at them essentially, but they are. >> yeah, they are. thanks for having me on, alison and victor. it is shameful to watch this. you're talk ak women and children on a bus. i feel that, if folks feel angry and frustrated, should at a broken immigration system. go to washington and yell at the parties responsible for it.

go down the block, hotels, restaurantsmarietta, people who built the homes, in fact, yell at the employers, but to take it out on these kids who they said have had a difficult time just in the last several months coming all the way from central america. they've seen terrible things in their home country. now they've seen terrible things in this country. >> enrique, the "new york times" editorial board urged president obama to go big on immigration, writing, "as the border crisis plays out, public support for legalization will are tested," but mr. obama can ease fears if he acts millions here are a benefit to the country and deserve a chance to stay." what do you say about that? >> no doubt the undocumented community is a benefit to this country and the no doubt that the immigration system is broken. both parties need to work on it as rubin mentioned, but i think

that what happened in marietta. i was there when the buses arrived a few days ago, we saw the worst of the american spirit. this could be our rosa parks moment, where the country goes, wait a minute. is that who we are as a nation? our flags banged against the bus, screaming at these kids and mothers? so president obama said it's a humanitarian crisis. we need a humanitarian response. his saying he wants to xpeed yate deportation is not humanitarian. it's not to a lot of people. the overwhelming majority are not criminals. children and women trying to escape a very violent situation in their homeland and we as a country can invest in the countries to have more presence so they don't have to leave. >> i understand what you're saying, but should they be offered asylum? i mean, you can't take in -- i guess you can -- but should the u.s. take in 40,000, 50,000, 60,70,000 children and offer all asylum? >> yes, the ones that qualify i

believe we should, because this country has a great role in what happened down in central america. what's happening down there now, demand for drugs, wars of the 1980s. we've played a role down there, not always a positive role. we can't open to the doors to everybody. that's not what we're saying. most undocumented people don't come to the united states. there's 250 million undocumented people. 11.5 million of them are in this great country, but when you put up a wall, "operation gatekeeper" that leads to 10,000 deaths, no line for the people to get into and they have to risk their lives coming through the desert, that is not the solution. there's a solution we need to work on as the adults, but taking it out on the children like these people did is not what this country is all about and we need to take a closer look at ourselves to have humane policies and work closer with our neighbors in all directions. if these were canadian kids we wouldn't be having this discussion. >> but you can't deny the fact there is a huge influx, enrique, the immigrants coming in all at once.

we don't have the facilities or border patrol to hand ale this d reports of them arriving with contagious skin diseases, or rather contagious skin conditions. could in this become a health crisis? >> no. just like when people quayle through quayle -- came through ellis island had diseases. people just came in. no legal versus illegal. this is a relatively new phenomenon of the last 100 years, legal versus illegal. if people have health issues, have them go to the doctor. families with criminal history, put them in jail, the overwhelming majority of these people coming, children are not criminal, not sick.escape, feed family, be with their family or escape terrible violence. let's look at humane solutions for this terrible situation that they're living in. >> rubin, let me come to you. of course, this is a political hot potato and the president

says congress, send me something. congress says, president, you can't do this all by executive order. is there a message that is reinforcing this in central america? the president was very clear with george stephanopoulos on abc a few days ago, but is -- is there perceived leniency from the president that's being received in central america? >> well, let me say that there is a perceived and a real leniency being perceivened and seen not just by the president but by long-standing u.s. policy, no matter who's the president. before i get to that, let's talk about the politics of this. there's a fundamental misunderstanding in washington, d.c. about the immigration issue, and the narrative that's so popular on cnn, places, other places i work, in the media, it's somehow this is all the republicans' fault. democrats are blameless. had the republicans get onboard we'd have it tomorrow. that's not the case. democrats have done their theft

to thwart and serve at the behest of organized labor despite the rhetoric does not want an immigration reform bill that creates more competition for u.s. workers. you have both parties in washington fundamentally dishonest, each blaming the other, each culpable in ways, folks don't find out about. to your point of leniency, in the perceived sense of leniency, we've had a long-standing policy signed into law by george bush himself. george w. bush, that said that border patrolmen would take kids, unaccompanied minors and not simply send them across the border. we're not that kind of country. give them over to healthy human services and see if they can be placed with relatives in the u.s. the misconception on the right wing, talk shows equally uninformed about immigration is somehow this is an obama creation. it's not. it's an american creation regardless of presidents. this is how we handle unaccompanied minors. >> and we've run out of time. the senate passed a bill, the

president has said at least he's hoping to get a bill. maybe he says that because he knows john boehner knows he's not going to bring it to the floor, but it is speaker boehner who says they won't take it up this term. enrique and rubin, thank you both for talking about this with us. >> grass yocias. >> thank you. joan rivers, at it again. >> you want to see how she responded in an interview with fredricka whitfield when asked about her furs. [ female announcer ] there's a gap out there.

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fixodent. and forget it. blue skies, after hurricane arthur whipped its way through the east coast. i have crowds flocking to the waves. >> ah. >> that's jones beach. nice shot. people getting out there early. not even 11:00 on long island. >> when you had the winter we had in new york, i'm not surprised they're out early. >> lifeguards on alert. danger, rip currents are out there. can't see them, but they can be deadly. chad myers join us us to explain the science behind rip currents. >> reporter: alison, it may look like an amazing surf's up dap at the beach, but hidden dangers are sandbars offshore and big waves crashing over the sandbars piling up water very close to the shore. right where you want to swim.

so here comes the water. you can't see the sandbars in those big waves like we just saw, but if the waves are a little calmer and the seas clearer, you can see the lighter color up there. so the water crashes over. eventually piles up, and somewhere, you don't even know where, eventually this is going to erode the sandbar, and the sandbar erodes just like any kind of erosion you've ever seen, and a rip current extends right from the shore right back out into the ocean, 100 or so yards. if you are caught in this, you are going out with it. now, the theory is to always swim along the shore away from where you're swimming to go back out. don't try to turn around and swim against it. i've been caught in one of these. all your body wants to do, all your brain wants to do is get back to shore, and you start swimming against the rip current and that's the wrong thing. you're going to get tired very, very quickly. if you can get out of the rip current around lew feeder currents to get you back, that's

when you'll be safe. another way to be safe or safer is, of course, to always wear a life jacket in the ocean. victor? >> all right, chad myers for us, helping us understand the science behind the rip currents. thank you, chad. a question for you. who needs those fourth of july fireworks when you have joan rivers? >> boom, nobody. >> the comedienne who lately has been censoring her own outrageous commentary recently efficiented a gay wedding. >> he response, typical joan rivers. >> do the think the country will, the united states will see the first gay president or the first woman president? >> we've already had it with obama. so let's just calm down. >> got t. you know michelle is a tramp. >> i'm sorry, she's a what? >> a transgender. we all know that. >> oh, my gosh. >> our colleague, fredricka whitfield, got to sit down with joan rivers recently, and she asked her questions. >> asked about the criticism

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make some of the kids uncomfortable. texas cheerleader kendal jones hunts big game in africa for sport. has a public facebook account shows her posing proudly buy ked lions, el gants and leopards. a lot of critics initially responding with comments calling her a monster. she says she does it to conserve wildlife. >> on the other side, a support page created with almost 80,000 likes. a representative says facebook shut it down. cnn invited ms. jones to the show. she declines. we also invited safari club international, they declined saying in part, "we feel this is no longer a discussion on wildlife conservation, but rather a personal attack on a teenager." >> nicole buckette joins us from washington, vice president of the wildlife protection for the humane society of the u.s. nicole, does ms. jones' argument that shooting animals helps to

conserve wildlife hold water? >> absolutely not. to kill an animal, to hunt and animal is simply unacceptable in this time. it's merely a thrill kill. if she was truly wanting to conserve these animals she would be ensuring that her money went to on the ground conservation efforts to help anti-poaching as well as to help the communities that live in and around these areas. >> no coicole, let's listen to sound from safari international. does being a professional hunter make this anymore humane? listen to this. >> you don't just go out and kill everything on site. when you go there, you have a professional hunter with you and he tells you when and what to do. >> well, essentially, most of these people who go to africa to kill animals are hiring a private company, whose sole

issue is to have more money in their pockets. they care more about providing a ready inventory of animals for foreign travelers to kill, like an elephant, like a buffalo, like a rhino. these animals are on the brink's population decline due to habitat loss and illegal poaching's we should be making sure that our money spent over there is going towards these on the ground efforts. >> so what about -- i mean, i understand the argument in many ways is that this is -- is sport. for some people, it's lifestyle, and this is more of an attack on them and their lifestyle by some, maybe not you, than a protection of the animals? >> well, i mean, ms. jones actually went to a country, zimbabwe, and she purported to kill, wanted to kill an elephant on facebook. it should be noted that just this year the u.s. fish and wildlife service actually stated

and ended the import of elephants into this country due to the fact that there is lack of law enforcement on the ground and there is an increase in illegal poaching, just last year over 300 elephants in zimbabwe were poisoned to death. therefore, the u.s. government actually stated that any kill of an animal, even if it's legal, is actually not sustainable, nor does it add to the -- it's not sustainable nor does it help the population on decline, and she went over there to kill an elephant. it's shameful. >> nicole, what are ways people can save wildlife? >> there's many ways. the humane society of the united states as well as our affiliate, humane society international, we are on the ground in various countries to actually stop the curve in illegal poaches of a rhino trade as well as the ivory trade. a, you can is to be purchasing

these products and don't tribute. but you also could do eco tourism. i was lucky enough to actually go africa. one of the best experiences of my life and i shot those animals with a camera and i and other people can go there and see those exact same animals generating revenue to come, to help those animals on the ground. >> okay. nicole, thanks for your time, and if you want-we want to be clear, the offer to ms. jones to come on the show here is still open, and we would be happy too hear from her. >> all right. a huge blow to team brazil in the world cup. superstar neymar goes down with a fractured spine. and wimbledon has a winner. results of latest final, ahead. for the evert time.. she let him plan the vacation. off the beaten path: he said trust me: he implored alas, she is beginning to seriously wonder why she ever

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with 1,000 applications received, the group's new chapters will bring more neighbors together to meet those needs. >> i come bearing widows. >> reporter: they've helped more than 1,600 young military widows found support. empowering widows as they move forward. 2013 hero jake woods disaster relief group made up of military veterans increased its network's volunteers tenfold. now 16,000 strong, their teams have already responded to 12 disasters this year. >> pick up the bed. >> reporter: wit help of 2012s, mary and dozens of veterans are managing ptsd and moving forward in life with their service dogs. >> there you go. walk with confidence. relax. >> reporter: the group is now employing veterans and expanded its efforts to southern california. >> there will be no man left

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to victory in about 45 minutes. also won on the crass courts back in 2011. a bittersweet moment for soccer fans in brazil. the host nation advances to the world cup semifinals, but it will be without star striker neymar who fractured a vertebra during this collision in the closing minutes of brazil the 2-1 win against colombia yesterday and he's out for the rest of the tournament. now we're wondering, who will four goals and one assist in the world cup this year. and the super bowl of bicycle racing gets under way today. this year the tour de france will actually start in england. not unusual. the race passes through neighboring kunlds sometimes. two years ago the tour began in belgium. it finishes in paris july 27th. i just can't get over this story about neymar. wondering, is brazil going to crumble or say win it for neymar? >> they may surprise you. >> could be a rallying point,

cry, for brazil. although they don't really need a rallying cry, because it's brazil. ever looked into the stands at these stadiums? they're revved up anyway. >> that does it for us today. thanks for watching. >> we turn everything over to our colleague, fredricka whitfield. hey, fred. >> thank you so much. have a great rest of the happy 4th weekend. victor, see you in a couple minutes. good to see you, alison, here. >> same here. >> so seldom gemt to get to be the same room together. the 11:00 hour of the "newsroom," which begins right now. a little boy interest in a car. his tragic death and what is becoming a disturbing legal

case. >> what we has doing while out in the car? >> the most common term would be sexting. >> it doesn't end there. more shocking testimony, next. plus, angry protesters facing off in california over the arrival of busloads of undocumented immigrants. some of them had this strong message. >> we're not going to stand for it. that's just how it is. there's thousands and millions of others who have done the right way. >> the latest on where those immigrants ended up and how washington is now responding. and on this day three years ago, on this day, rather, three years ago, casey anthony heard her fate, not guilty of murdering her daughter caylee. where she is now. coming up. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com ? a tragic death with a horrifying

twist is grabbing everyone's attention this weekend. many people spending time with their own families are asking could, a father intentionally leave his 22-month-old child in a hot car to die? that's the question at the center of a case against justin ross harris. facing a murder charge after his son cooper died last month when left in a hot car all day long. details that came out in a preliminary hearing are jaw-dropping. police say the day his son died, harris was sending text messages and ex-clis it pictures to six women, including an underaged girl. victor blackwell was inside that georgia courtroom for the hearing. victor, take us there. what was it like? what was it really like for the courtroom to hear these details, because it certainly caught an awful lot of people, except, of course, the prosecutors and the defense attorneys, by surprise. right? >> no one expected the details about the sexting and one of them being an underaged girl. there's no guarantee that even the defense attorney knew, because there's no discovery

before a probable cause hearing. first, it was packed. i mean, people standing around lining the walls there. a large group of supporters came together, because this church is just across the street. leanna harris, his wife, sat in the third row and sat there without much emotion for most of this hearing. supposed to go 90 minutes. went on four three hours. a couple of gasps-inducing, gasp-worthy revelations from this investigator. of course, the text messages, but also we're told that a witness at the day care, when leanna harris showed up and found out her son was 23409 there. the first thing aid cording to the witness said, ross must have left him in the car. there are lots of options. maybe they didn't come in today. maybe he decided to spend the day at the park with the kid and take the day off. >> day care workers are saying, don't jump to that. >> another option we heard people audibly gasp in the courtroom. remember, lots of media types and also lots of supporters.

here's the moment involving the husband and wife together. >> who was it that got emotional? >> the father. >> and could you tell the judge what was he being emotional about? what was the main thing he was crying about or -- sobbing about or whatever? >> it was all about him. i can't believe this is happening to me. i can't believe, you know, think happened to me. why amished for this and all one-sided. >> did he talk about losing this job? >> what are we going to do, i'm going to lose my job. i'll be charged with a felony. >> did his wife ever say anything to him what he said to police? >> she had him sit down, he starts going through this and she looks at him, well, did you say too much? so -- marks on the child's face, it would have come from the child or a scratch being mailed

while the child was alive and not healing, not scabbing over or anything like that and just soon after he passed away. >> any injuries to the back of the child's head? >> yes. abrasions to the back of the child's head. >> all right. two different thing there's. that first, you know, about saying too much. the why saying to the husband, did you say too much. >> yes. at that point, people were starting to look around at each other. not just the reporters but some of the people on the supporters' side. initially going into that room, the question was, why wasn't leanna harris making a public statement defending her husband or where was she? after leaving that room and all that watched on cnn questioned will she at some point face charges as well? and also asking about, you know, the life insurance policy. we know in the days since, there have been questions from ross harris, at least according to police, about the $27,000 in those two life insurance policies on the child's life. >> and of course we heard the

officer talking about the markings on the child, which exhibited the suffering. >> yes. >> while the car was getting too hot. while the child was dying. >> the struggle in the car. that could be -- you could attribute the marks to that and also the toxicology report outstanding in the autopsy. what we've referred from the medical examiner, homicide, cause of death, hyperthermia. not official. the autopsy not released. waiting for the toxicology to come back. was there something inside this child that maybe he was used to put him to sleep? also a lot of scowling at the media. we were sitting in the jury box and all the benches were filled with other reporters and also the family and supporters from the church but a lot of looking over at us. kind of a, how dare you, kind of look at us. >> almost consistent with the funeral. we yo nick valencia was in

tuscaloosa and described the people at the funeral for the child were very upset media personnel were there and supporters of mr. harris have been very outspoken about the disinterest of media being there and that's consistent with what you saw in the courtroom. >> however, if they didn't want us at the funeral they could have said that. in a courtroom, it's different. it's a public forum, you can cover it. at funeral if they did not want to make a statement by having that call and having leanna harris there to make the statement for the news media, they could have said no reporters and they wouldn't have been inside that church. >> powerful. thank you for brings that to us. keep us up dated. he's held without bond right now. thank you, appreciate it. another story that people are still talking about this holiday weekend -- arthur. the hurricane. which is now downgraded again. this time to a posttropical storm after making landfall as a category 2 hur karericane.

swept avoss southern new england overnight packing tropical storm winds passing over the eastern seaboard now. joining me from the cnn weather center, karen maginnis. relief it's down graded but tropical storm packing a you positiverful punch still. what's next? >> and the remnants are we saw flooding, high winds, damage. some homes were damped that were -- numerous trees down and this is all that's left. you're thinking what is this? this doesn't look anything like a hurricane. in fact, it's not a hurricane. it's not a tropical storm. it is a post tropical cyclone. this comma-shaped cloud mostly impacting maine and news brunswick, hardly even nova scotia, we're we'd seen winds up to 60 miles an hour. typically, when we start the season off of hurricane season, the caribbean and gulf of mexico, the typical origin areas. as we move into july and this

system fits it perfectly, we start to see more of a formation, a little further towards the east. further east in the gulf, and further east as into the atlantic. so it's not totally atypical toll see this kind of development. so, fredricka, if we get off with this, a 2.5 day hurricane, we will be lucky for the season, but i have my doubts about that. >> oh, boy. all right. thanks, karen. appreciate that. all right. comedienne joan rivers is making waves after she made rather bizarre comments to a photographer on the street. >> and do you think that the country will see the first, the united states will see the first gay president or first woman president. >> have it with obama. let's just calm down. >> got it. >> you know michelle is a trans -- >> i'm sorry? a what? >> she's a transgender. we all know it. >> oh, my gosh. >> a representative for rivers says the comments were meant to

be a compliment. that quote, the most gorgeous women are transjentder bp -- transgender, coinciding with the release of her new book. "diary of a mad diva." i had the pleasure to sit down with joan rivers and there were surprises. bottom line, pretty interesting. >> you know, this whole interview is becoming a defensive interview. are you wearing leather shoes? >> yes. >> then shut up's i don't want to hear it. you're wearing leather shoes. >> i'm not an activist. >> you're eating chicken's you're eating meat. i don't want to hear this nonsense. come to me with a paper belt, and i'll talk to you. >> but you did hear it in some of those press conferences. there were people upset and you're saying, no way. >> you know, i'm going. i really am going, because all you've done is negative. all you have done is negative. >> no! >> and she really did go. well, you can see the rest of my interview coming up in this hour

of the "cnn newsroom." also, coming up on a holiday weekend that marks the birth of the nation of immigrants. protests are still erupting in the battle over undocumented mile gran migrants. it's been three years since casey anthony was handed a not guilty verdict for the death of her daughter. what her life is like today. the exclusive details on this hour of the "cnn newsroom."

all right. this july 4th weekend a nation of immigrants in the middle of an immigration crisis. another flight of undocumented immigrants arrived in southern california friday from overcrowded facilities in texas. they were bussed to a processing center in san diego. >> they're americans, too! they're not here destroying -- >> they're breaking the law!

>> this time drivers avoided marietta, california, where protesters turned away three busloads of immigrants earlier in the week. protesters on both sides of the issue gathered again friday in marietta, becoming a focal point. crisis. joining us now from the white house, clearly, this caught the attention of everyone in the nation, and that of the white house. so what are administration officials saying about what's taking place in that citizens turned out to turn away these buses? >> reporter: well, fred, this morning a senior administration official tells me they don't believe the situation necessitates a policy change at this point in time. now, i have to tell you, fred, a powerful backdrop to the story here at the white house yesterday. the president attend add naturalization ceremony for 25 new citizens as they took the oath of allegiance. while there he talked how -- he didn't specifically talk about

this situation in california but briefly mentioned how he wraunts to make the system smarter and more efficient. of course, president obama already requested $2 billion of additional resources from congress, in addition to also saying that he will take some executive action later this summer, ways they can improve the system. now, the white house was specifically asked about the emotion of the week, but i have to tell you, fred, they almost seemed to sidestep, kuching to the anger we've seen play out through the images in california. >> and the president is going to be in texas mid-week, for fund-raising, and apparently the governor has asked the president to visit the border alongside him? is there a response from the white house? >> reporter: well, definitely a challenge from governor rick perry in texas and the white house so sfar not taking the bait on that. a senior administration official tells me this morning as of now, there is no plan for the president to take a side trip

while in texas. the president will be down there for a fund-raiser and the white house almost quipped back. they said, republicans should be spending their time working to pass comprehensive immigration reform instead of extending these border invitations. fred? >> sunlen at the white house, thanks very much. and is this what could happen in iraq? the joint chiefs chairman says, no. top brass aren't ruling a u.s. engagement out. that's keeping you from the healthcare you deserve.. at humana, we believe if healthcare changes, if frustration and paperwork decrease... the gap begins to close. so let's simplify things. let's close the gap between people and care.

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>> we may get to that point. if our national interests drive us there. if i become such a threat to the homeland that the president of the united states with our advice decides we have to take direct action, i'm just suggesting to you we're not there yet. >> joining me right now, cnn military analyst frank kona. good to see you. colonel what would be an incident or a moment that would trigger these advisers to get militarily involved? >> yeah. i think general dempsey's comments bear watching here. he seemed to leave the door open that we could actually change the mission, because he said that the iraqi forces are not capable of ejecting the icesis troops without outside help. where's that coming from? leaving the door open for what we call "mission creep." putting u.s. forces back on the ground? >> and general dempsey would

disagree saying, it's not "mission creep" but instead, "mission match." what does that mean? >> parching words there, because i think they realize that as their doing their initial assessment of the iraqis, they believe that the iraqis are not capable as a force to do what needs to be done, and that will probably require some outside help, and that outside help right now looks to be us. >> and then, talk to me about the might and the real threat of isis? does it pose -- we know it poses a threat to iraqi forces, why they're asking for assistance, but what kind of direct impact or threat may it have to the u.s.? the u.s. personnel that there are? >> yes, i think that's important. we have to recognize that if there's a threat to u.s. national interests that would be the deciding factor on whether we go back in. that threat will be, if isis is able to set up this cdesert are

where they've staeshed a state. if they turn this into afghanistan like in 1996 with the taliban, they set up camps there, allow groups to form there, and then export terrorism from there, then that become as threat to us. but that's -- we're not there yet. >> this president says, no u.s. troops would be ground forces, but it's a possibility, because we have u.s. personnel there, and something might trigger their engagement. what would it take for the commander in chief to change his mind on this? >> i think he'd have to see a direct threat. some sort of groups forming or training camps set up with an intent to actually export this, to become a threat to either europe or the united states. i think we'll see that. i think before that, though, they'll try different models. maybe the northern alliance model, having u.s. special forces calling in air strikes, try to do this without involving u.s. ground forces, which seems to be the big red line right now. >> all right.

lieutenant colonel, thanks so much. happy fourth weekend. >> same to you. >> all right. all right. this weekend, sadly, many people are also talking about the georgia hot car toddler death. but three years ago, it was the death of caylee anthony. her mom, casey anthony, faced murder charges, but was handed a not guilty verdict. coming up, where casey anthony is today, and what she's doing. we have exclusive pictures of her. next. for the second time th

week, a flight carrying undocumented immigrants arrived in southern california. [ arguing ] >> not a pretty scene there. the people who had just crossed the border were bussed to san diego, avoiding mariette ta, california where protesters turned away buses earlier in the

week, but protester were out in force on friday in marietta, expecting the buses to once again pass through. tensions running high there, and six people in the end were arrested. and now for some other headlines -- taliban militants are claiming responsibility for an attack on hundreds of oil tankers outside afghanistan's capital of kabul. in all, more than 400 trucks went up in flames. the taliban said they attacked the trucks because they were transporting fuel for nato forces. and convicted killer joran van der sloot now has a new title. husband. he married his pregnant pew ruvian girlfriend in prison friday morning. van der sloot is serving time for murder of another peruvian woman, and he was arrested, but never charged, in the disappearance of this young lady, alabama teenager internationally h natalee

holloway. he body has never been found. many people can't turn away from news about the father who left his child in a hot car, and now accused of murder. three years ago, america was captivated by the casey anthony murder trial. since being found not guilty of killing her daughter, casey anthony has really kept to herself. no one has seen her, but now, cnn has exclusive photos of casey anthony, plus details about the case never revealed before. jean casarez has this exclusive. >> reporter: fred, so many things have never been made public about casey anthony, and what happened behind the scenes during her very famous trial. what was she like while the case was going on? what is her life like today? take a look. july, 2011. hundreds gather outside the courthouse in orlando, florida, to wait for a verdict. in what many say was the death

penalty trial of the century. the case again casey anthony. >> so the charge of first-degree murder, verdict, as to count one, we the jury find the defendant no guilty. >> reporter: the case ended as dramatically as it started, with a call to 911 from a panicked grandmother. >> there's something wrong. i found my daughter's car today and it smells like there's been a dead body in the damn car. >> we had a missing child that was absolutely adorable, and a beautiful young woman mother, 22 years of age, and the grandmother, screaming that on the phone. >> reporter: suspicion fell on casey anthony. police believed her stories weren't adding up. her little girl caylee taken by the nanny no one could find and pictures like these suggesting while her daughter was missing, she was partying. that sparked public outrage. an experienced death penalty lawyer was watching from the sidelines while anthony's attorney jose baez, was coming

under scrutiny for his lack of experience. bias asked for help. mason decided to meet with anthony. >> brought her into the room. i'm sitting there looking. just a child herself. this can't be. >> reporter: but it was. the state gave notice they were seeking the death penalty against anthony for the premeditated murder of caylee, whose skeletalee mains were found close to the family home in orlando, florida, about five months after she went missing. >> could shu look you in the eye? >> yes. >> reporter: her demeanor? >> afraid. unsure about really anything, and what was going to happen. how it was going to happen. >> reporter: mason, in his new book "justice in america" describes for the first time calling kagsy's parents, george and cindy, to his office late on a friday afternoon shortly before jury selection began. mason had just received word that casey's handwritten letters describes sexual abuse by her father were about to be released

publicly. >> we had them one at a time come into my personal office, and made the announcement. and told them, you know, monday's going to be a bad day for you, george, and i felt man to man, i'm going to tell you in advance. >> reporter: what was his reaction? >> basically, none. he looked at me, and kind of turned sideways a little bit. clapped his hands down on his thighs and then let out a big sigh and didn't say anything. >> reporter: george anthony never admitted to mason any inappropriate contact with casey. >> then called mom in, cindy, and told her, and she immediately welled up with tears, emotion and cried, and was very upset. >> reporter: once a jury was selected, this death penalty trial began, and jose baez turned the case on its head by announcing this bombshell in his opening statement. >> and it all began when casey

was 8 years old and her father came into her room and began to touch her inappropriately. >> i didn't know he was going to say that. i was concerned about that, bought i knew that we didn't have the ability to prove that, unless george got on the stand and confessed. >> reporter: prosecutors made george anthony their first witness. >> have you ever sexually molested your daughter casey anthony? >> no, sir. >> reporter: testimony in the case continued for weeks, as witness after witness and forensic experts from around the country took the stand in this circle case. while the trial was being hotly contested in and out of the courtroom, secret plea discussions that would have spared anthony's life were beginning. it was anthony who shut them down. >> casey wouldn't have any part of it. she got very angry that she didn't want to talk about it. didn't want to hear it.

>> reporter: society tri the tr on and then the verdict heard around the world. >> were these your verdicts? >> yes. >> reporter: anthony was free, but the hatred against her was stronger than ever. the public's opinion of casey anthony hasn't changed much. he remained closely anthony. >> she has no blood family anymore. no contact with them? >> no contact with her mother. >> i think a few conversations with her over the years. that's it. no contact. >> reporter: her father? >> none. >> reporter: her brother? >> none. not likely to ever be. she hasn't been freed from her incarceration yet. because she can't go out. she can't do anything. >> i know that she has very, um, very strong feelings about what has happened to her.

i also know she's very saddened by her loss, and she never will forget her daughter caylee, ever. >> reporter: casey lives in an undisclosed location in florida. some of her form other attorneys do what they can to help her. she denied a request for an interview. fred? >> jean casarez, thank you so much. coming up, a world cup injury, wimbledon finale, and the beginnings of the cross-country cycle, all the details in our "bleacher report." next's in sports, and first, one of the great american traditions. fireworks on the fourth of july. here's how they looked around the country. ♪ i make a lot of purchases for my business.

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>> great. great to be here. not serena williams, but winning her second wimbledon title a short time ago, kvitova. made it look easy, cruising to victory in less than an hour and won on the grass courts in 2011, and it didn't end well. a bright side. the first canadian man or woman to reach the tennis grand slam final. >> wow. congrats to her. >> yeah. a bittersweet moment for soccer fans in brazil. the host nation advances to the world cup semifinals but without star striker neymar. he fractured a vertebrae during that collision in the closing minutes their win over colombia. it looks terrible, and he's not out for the rest of the world cup. >> the way he's grimacing. a knee to the back. doesn't that come with the sport, maybe it doesn't hurt.

you see that, ooh, that hurts mpltsd someti. >> sometimes soccer players are a little dramatic. but he should have been dramatic there. tough to see if they can rebound from this. >> for him, a drag to not go on in his home country. >> exciting young player, too. i think. the super bowl of bicycle racing gets underway today. this year the tour de france actually starts in england. that's not unusual for the race. sometimes they pass through neighboring countries. two years ago the tour began in belgium. the 21-state tour finishes in paris on july 27th. prince william and his wife kate have a big part in this and kate middleton cut the ribbon to start the race. looks fabulous as usual. >> she never has a bad day. how does someone photograph so beautifully? >> can we get her wardrobe, too? >> that, too. she's quite stylish.

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a nice way to put it. >> it is indeed. hey, look what is it about the year 2013 that you focus on in this diary, when you thought, man, there was so much material, i can't help myself. i've got to write about it? in "diary of a diva." >> my last book was on the best-seller list 19 weeks. my produce sir not a fool. she said, write another. i said, about what? she said, you're funny every day. write about what annoys you or makes you laugh every day, and that's how the book came about and it was so great to write. every day the life of a bitch put down. >> all in there. your experiences, your observations. things ripped from the news or entertainment headlines. for example, you write this. i'm back in l.a. for a minor cosmetic procedure. i'm having a brow lift, tummy tuck, chin job and lip implant, or my plastic surgeon likes to call the "the usual."

joan, you joke about yourself. joke about yourself, about these surgeries. everything is on the table? >> nots on the table. we're taking all that skin off the table and made another little person that works right beside me. i am never lonely. >> and so honest about this plastic surgery. usually people get plastic surgery and don't want to tell anybody about it. are you still getting them and is it an addiction? what's going on here? >> no. in california, and i'm sure you, too, i don't know you specifically, but how old are you? >> not yet. i'm near 50. how about that? >> well, i'm sure you've had your botox. >> nothing yet. >> well, whatever. >> not that i don't need it. i'm a chicken. >> no. you look good. every woman -- don't put your money in a car. put your money on yourself and leave your car at the curb. in california, women look extraordinarily beautiful, that, of course, is they're pulled so tight sometimes, they go to the bathroom through their ears, but it does the matter.

they look good. they look good. >> oh, my gosh. you're right, everyone look goods in l.a. you also write, really, about these interviews that you're constantly on junkets whether talking about your books, your tv shows, all your enterprises and you write, i must say, i hate going on shows where the interviewer just reads the questions, regardless of what's being said. me, i just killed my mother. interviewer, i understand you like shoes. i hate that, you wry pt at least link it up with, did you get your mothers? >> yeah. exactly. no. you know that. it's always so easy to tell who's a good interviewer and a bad interviewer, when he follow what the guest has just said. you know? if john travolta says i was coming out of the closet today, you have to say, with -- >> what? >> looking for a suit or looking for a young guy? i mean, you have to -- follow up on the question. >> right. and do you feel like, i mean, you have been, you know, a

trailblazer in so many different ways, and you know, it seems like you've covered it you a, but then i wonder, are there projects and, involving you, perhaps alongside your daughter melissa, is there anything else on your list that you feel like you've got to tackle? that you hope to do one day soon? >> oh, everything. we're in the fourth year of "fashion police." second year of the internet show "in bed with joan." i'm going back to broadway starting in washington, the national theater, in november. i want to do another book. i want to do another book. you just want to keep doing things. it's so much fun to make people laugh, and get a check. >> wow. and so, you know -- yeah. in all of these -- you know, i guess foray, it's been very -- very good to you, and you know, you've got best-selling books. you sell out on stage. even with your fashion critiquing, while it's very mean in some ways. >> it's not mean. it's not mean.

>> really? not mean? >> it's not mean. i tell the truth. i'm sure i say the same things that all of your viewers say to their friends sitting in ex-to them on the couch. you know, we're one of the few shows that says, that's an ugly dress. and that's okay. these ladies make $28 million a picture. you really think that nikki minaj cares, i didn't like her dress? you know, in that kind of a bracket, you don't really care. >> not really worried about feelings being hurt? >> not when it's about dresses. it's not about them. it's about clothing. >> okay. what about when it is about something, you know, that really does seem off limits to that really does seem off limits to a lot of people. even in your book, you kind of joke at the death of casey anthony's baby, princess diana surviving so many land mines and who she dated. do you feel there are boundaries

ever? >> life is very tough and if you can make a joke to make something easier and funny, do it. done. do it. but darling, i don't know what your life has been like, but i have a lot of people who have gone through hell and if you can make, winston churchill said if you make someone laugh, you give them a little vacation and maybe you take the worst thing in the world and make it funny, t a vacation for a minute from horror. >> and people love to laugh, clearly, that's why people love you. but you have some shock value to you. on cover of your book, you're wearing a fur and owe probably knew there would be animal rights -- >> this whole interview has become a defensive interview. shut up. you are wearing fur. you're eating chicken. you're eating meat.

i don't want to hear this nonsense. come to me with a paper belt and i'll talk to you. >> but you did hear it in some of those press conferences. you're just saying -- >> you know, i'm going. i really am going because all you have done is negative. >> no. >> all you have done is negative. i make people laugh for 50 years, i am put on earth to make people laugh, my book is funny. i wear fur that was killed 15 years ago. i work for animal right, stop it with and you do this and you're mean, you are not the one to interview a person who does humor. sorry. >> are we serious? oh, boy. yeah, she was serious. i thought she was joking the whole time. but in the end, we wondered was this a stunt? well, rivers didn't return to the interview, but off camera, she kept her mike on as she continued to talk and drop some

unflattering four letter words. she was serious. as for the question i asked joan rivers at the fur, earlier in the week, tmz released video of animal rights protesters crashing rivers book signing in new york. putting her on the spot about her fashion choice and at the time, she treated it with humor that only joan rivers can do and i thought during our interview, i would simply ask her about that moment. and about her sentiments an that she might give us an encore of the kind of humor she displayed there and the humor that we know is that of joan rivers and you see what happened when i went there. she went there. we wanted her to go there with us and instead, she went there. somewhere else. all right. well, coming up next, how a powerful new television add is redefining the phrase like a girl. when folks think about what they get from alaska, they think salmon and energy. but the energy bp produces up here

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this weekend, an intriguing and provocative television ad showcases the power of women an girls. this is what happened during the making of an ad for always. young women were asked to run like a girl. >> show me what it looks like to run like a girl. >> my hair.

>> and then girls ages 10 and younger were asked the same thing. run like a girl. >> show me what it looks like to run like a girl. >> powerful and strong. kelly wallace was touched to learn that girls under 10 see themselves as strong, fast, seemingly unbeatable. so kelly asked women and men what happens after puberty. why are so many girls and women critical of themselves? >> as we get older, we're more worried about what people are thinking about us. >> it's a hard time with all the changes and all the contradictions society throws at us. >> thousands of years now they've been trying to make us think we're the weak sex. i guess it's had an imprint. >> they think today's parents see things a lot differently.

i think kick like a girl might have been from 40 years ago. >> should be a compliment. we are amazing and beautiful and we are meant to be strong and meant to be a girl. >> get out there and do your thing. >> like a girl. >> i found this remarkable as well. women are powerful in so many ways, at home, if the classroom, on the playing field and of course in the board room, but why is it there remains this perception that anything like a girl can be interpreted in an unflattering way? >> it is incredible, in 2014, why does this still exist? is it a carryover from a time when girls didn't play as many sports as boys? when gender roles were narrowly defined. girls were supposed to grow up and be mommys and boys, the breadwinners. it is so obvious these stereo

types still exist and what i found really powerful is how the add lens enter girl, when they thought about how they responded and wanted to do it again, the second time, they did it with that full throttle girl power, which was amazing, so it shows how deeply engrained these stereo types can be, but also how people want to change them, too. >> yeah, so i wonder if this really is a generational thing, in other words, are the chances pretty good these girls 10 and under will grow out of puberty and maintain that strong exhibition of doing something like a girl. >> we hope so, but i think we have a lot of work to do as parents and women because look again at how those adelisolesce girls responded with their arms flailing and slapping instead of punching. just a few years earlier, they would have responded in confident and empowering ways. what happened to those girls

after puberty. that's the big question. we've got to talk to our girls, have them look critically about how girls and women are portrayed in the media and have them get back that full, confident self. >> you're a mother of girls, did you notice the dynamic, their confidence changing based on you know, what kind of, i don't know, what their family experiences? their school experiences or is it just you know, who they are? >> well, it is so interesting because my girls are 8 and 6 and my 6-year-old loves sports, right, and she might be i don't use the term, but some would b probably give her the term tomboy, so i asked her, i said, lily, run like a girl and she ran, but not as fast as she normally runs and i asked her about it and she sort of even at 6, in her mind, boys run faster. throw harder or stronger than girls, so i feel like i have a lot of gender stereotype work to

do in my own house. >> lots of work to do. thanks, kelly. keep us posted on that. >> i sure will. coming up next hour, facebook says sorry for its social ek perments. why federal regulators may be getting involved. we have so much straight ahead and it all begins now. we have so much straight ahead -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com hello again, everyone. here are the top stories we're following. angry protesters face off in california over the arrival of bus loads of undocumented immigrants. some of the protesters had this strong message. >> we're not going stand for it. that's just how it is. thousands an millions of other people who have done it the right way.

>> we have the latest on where they ended up and how washington is now responding. plus, a scene that made drivers hit the brakes. a california highway patrolman punching a woman over and over again. what investigators are saying about that coming up. and a look inside the sunking cruise ship, costa concordia. it's been lying in the water for more than two years. what's happening to the ship right now, straight ahead. this braking news. we have a new video now in to the cnn news room, images are surfacing of a man believed to be the secretive leader of the isis forces in iraq. abu al bengati, appears to be leading a sermon at a mosque in mosul. arwa, what do we know about the circumstances of this video

being released because we also know that isis has been very digital message savvy, but what's behind this? >> reporter: they have been very savvy when it comes to technology and carefully krfting their messages. what they have been secret about has been their own identification of abu. this video posted to a twitter account and the video identifies the man being the name that he is known to his followers. ever since he declared the -- this is incredibly significant in that this is the first time that isis has actually in and of itself, identifying put iting a face to a man who up until now, we had only been hearing audio recordings from. cnn cannot verify the

authenticity of the video, whether or not this is the man. but this is the man whose face isis is presenting to the world. a man who arguably at this stage is the world's most wanted terrorist. now, this the sermon that took place in one of the oldest historic mosques in iraq's second city of mosul was putting forward a very clear message to those gathered there. he was talking about how it was a month of ramadan, a month of jihad and how it was a month where they must continue to fight the enemies and unbelievers. he was repeating that message to his followers, to take up arms to jihad. he was also making himself appear as though he was feeling a burden by this responsibility that has been placed upon him, saying i feel as if it is my duty top your imam, although i may not be the best one among you. this is a brazen, bold move at this stage with all of the u.s.

surveillance flying over iraq, the fact he made this kind of appearance in mosul at this critical moment in time. >> we are now learning that the u.s. officials are analyzing this video, its authenticity, its use and how it has been disseminated and conveyed. when we get more on what the u.s. officials are saying, we'll be able to bring that to our viewers. there are also reports on iraqi news that prime minister al maliki has fired the head of the iraqi military. is there anything you're hearing about that? whether there is any credence to that? >> reporter: that would be the head of the iraqi military commander who was in charge of the forces up in mosul who as we will remember basically abandoneded their position and refused to fight. this this whole reorgization of the iraqi security forces that the u.s. advisers have been

fairly involved in, we have seen al maliki firing a number of iowa generals, trying to put others into position. the security forces have come under heavy criticism for their lack of ability to stand up and fight against isis, especially in the northern part of the country. the iraqi government now clearly trying to make headway, trying to revamp its own structure because as many have been saying, some of the problems that have been facing the iraqi security forces has been this talk down command. a lot of commanders are put into positions as person favors. >> all right. thanks so much. keep us posted there. back in the country, more protests in california over the immigration crisis. for the second time this week, undocumented immigrants were flown from overcrowded facilities in texas to southern california, then bussed to a processing center in san diego. >> shame on you!

i don't hate you, i just hate your -- >> it was heated in california where protesters gathered again friday where they blocked three bus loads of immigrants earlier in the week. this time, the buses steered clear. not going to that city. joining us now from the white house, so, what are administration officials saying about how marietta, california's handling it and the kind of protests that have e involved? >> right now, a senior administration official tells me they don't believe this situation should have an impact at this time to their policy. there was an important backdrop to this story that took place here at the white house yesterday. the president attended a naturalization ceremony for 25 new citizens. he watched them get sworn in on the oath of allegiance and he did not make any reference to

the situation, the uproar going on in california, but he did talk about broad immigration reform and how he wants to make this system smarter and more efficient. now, to this emotion though of these powerful protests that are going on in neighborhoods of california, the white house was asked specifically about the anger of the situation and here's what they said at the white house about that. >> the president's committed to enforcing the law. and enforcing the law means that when there are apprehensions to be made at the border, particularly of children or adults traveling with children, we need to make sure that the basic humanitarian needs of those individuals have provided and that's why the president has asked for resources from congress to open up detention facilities across the country, where these individuals can be housed in humane conditions. >> and fred, that seems to me that they almost seem to sidestep that question about the anger, not wanting to touch into

the emotion of the moment when so many people are seeing these powerful images come out of california. >> then what's the white house's response to how the president might handle this when he goes to texas? he's been invited to go to the border with the governor, rick perry and i'm sure there are others who say we want to show you this scene. >> there are lots of invitations, but so far, the white house says the president is in texas to fund raise on wednesday, so there are no side trips at this time. they say scheduled to stop the deporter. this first came from an invitation from governor rick perry. he said come to the board e, come check out the situation here. the white house kind of put back to perry, instead of republicans sending invitations about border, he said they should be spending their time passing comprehensive immigration reform. the president due in texas on wednesday, so we'll see if there's amped up reved up political pressure this week for

president obama to make that side trip. >> all right, thanks so much. still ahead in the news room, hurricane arthur weakening to a tropical cyclone. how the storm is still affecting the east coast. plus, we're trying to determine what caused that horrific fire in philadelphia, that killed four children and a violent beating caught on camera between a woman an a police officer. we'll hear from an eyewitness to the beatdown that has gone viral. that's all coming up in the cnn news room.

hurricane arthur weakened overnight to a tropical storm and weakened even more to a post tropical cyclone this morning, but not before wiping out power

in north carolina overnight. the eastern sea board slammed with winds up to 65 miles an how, and now, waves and dangerous rip tides. potentially dangerous out there. karen mcginnis and alexandria field is at jones beach, new york. let's begin with you. look, that's beautiful. it looks great out there. and a lot of folks come to the beach and they're like, oh, forget the storm. it's overwith. >> yeah, i think so many people were worried that we wouldn't see anything like this. a lot of people sort of reconsidering those last minute plans, but check this out. thousands of people just getting out here this morning, enjoyinging the sunshine at jones beach. a lot of them even get ng the water. it is cold, but that isn't really the issue. the life guards here tell us they've had a close eye on the water, they are not seeing a problem with rip currents, but the national weather service is

warning people they could see problems where they are. >> oh, wow, but they do still have to be careful about the rip tides. while it looks beautiful out there and i see people are staying in shallow water, that's advisable and good. what are those life guards cautioning people about? they could end up being very busy because folks say it looks beautiful, but things can be deceiving. >> yeah, absolutely. they certainly can. and especially considering the fact that arthur came up the coast, made land fall in north carolina. that can whip up these rip currents. let's take a look at what arthur did over the last couple of days. from north carolina all the way up to the northeast, high winds, big waves, drenching rain and now, powerful rip tides. arthur lost force while heading north, but it was enough to leave a mark. hundred mile per hour winds and

35-foot waves were reported at the peak of the storm when arthur made landfall thursday night over north carolina. >> we are just absolutely getting slammed right now. by arthur. you can see the wind gusts really pick up here and the rain is just coming down. >> though arthur had more bark than bite, north carolina took the brunt of the storm with some damage and thousands left in the dark. >> emily blew a lot harder. we were really fortunate. >> by friday, the category 2 hurricane was downgraded, but turned deep into the atlantic and today, nova scotia is feeling its effects. >> how's that vacation going so far? >> pretty good until a few hours ago. kind of stuck inside. can't really do anything outside. >> the first hurricane of the season coinciding with the busiest travel week of the summer busteded some holiday

plans. prepared for a washout, boston moved up its annual 4th of july celebration. in washington, d.c., the fast moving storm cleared up just in time for r a friday night light show. ♪ but there are big concerns about what's left in arthur's wake along the eastern sea board, possible rip currents. the national weather service calls the spurts of backflowing water the worst danger at the beach. >> even though the beaches are open and we're still evaluating some of the outer bank beach, please listen to life guards, look at the warning flags. >> those currents are powerful, really no joke, even for strong swimmers. here at jones beach, life guards say about 80% of their water rescues are because people have become caught up in those rip currents. >> it can happen. i've been caught up in that before. it's scary, too, because you

feel that pull, but you've got to swim you know, kind of across just in line, parallel to the coast. all right. karen, you can tell us more about what's next with this storm. i mean, it's still kind of out there even though it's not a named storm, right? >> it is and we're not seeing anything that looks like a category 2 hurricane that we saw three days ago. to see three days worth of a hurricane, actually two and a half, is really kind of remarkable. we have lots of flooding damage. we had some wind damage to some of the homes, especially right around coastal sections of north carolina. down east in maine, also into massachusetts, but this is it. this is all that's left. it is post tropical cyclone arthur and the winds associated with this is 60 miles an hour. the national hurricane center says we're done with this system. no more reports. no more advisories coming out on

arthur. it is pretty much done, except it is impacted new brunswick. nova scotia was affected for maybe a couple of hours, but some regions across maine picked up as much as 8 inches of rain. also, in massachusetts, we saw, 5, 6, 7 inches of rain there. this wasn't without its consequences, but for a category 2 hurricane, really kind of remarkable, fred. >> wow. thanks so much. we'll check back with you, karen. and this sad news to report out of philadelphia. a fast moving three alarm fire has claimed the lives of f four children. steve patterson with our affiliate kyw tv has the details from southwest philly. what is the scene? >> reporter: we saw young families just kind of coming down this way. we saw them crying in agony and we couldn't figure out why. we had an interview with the

fire commissioner who told us what had happened and as we got word from officials that four children had died in the screaming increased. we can still hear it in the alley way behind me, but you see the devastation. eight row homes damaged. at least five completely destroyed. firefighters still holding the scene working on hot spots. we've seen some flare ups this morning as they continue to do their work. but the video from earlier as we got word of a tragedy, four children killed in this massive fire that broke out sometime before 2:45 this morning. this is the 6500 block of gestner. fire officials, we're not sure what address or how or what led to the fire, but once it started, it just started rip pig through each one of these row homes and spreading to each one until again, it got to about eight homes and then we heard

about the deaths. four children we're told are from one family. we're not sure what that family has been provided. we know the red cross is on scene at this point and along with those four children killed, four other people have been confirmed injured. we're not sure what the status of those folks are as well. but includinging thing that numt homes damaged, four children killed, four more people injured and 42 people displaced. we were there when the commissioner finally gave word that tragic news about the children. >> this is a tragic, tragic day for the city of philadelphia. tragedy. we lost four children today. and i want everybody to understand that fire is everyone's fight. not just the fire department. >> heartbreaking. our thanks to steve patterson there in philadelphia. coming up, a secret mood

experiment conducted by facebook on its unknowing users. no wonder there's a lot of anger. now, facebook is is offering sort of an apology, but what's stopping the social media giant from doing something like this again? that's next.

facebook is under fire for a rather creepy experiment. say you're in a good mood, open up facebook, scan your news feed and your mood darkens. you could have been one of facebook's 700,000 beginny pigs. they've been allowed to manipulate news feeds like maybe newborn baby pics or bad news. they did it to see whether it affect aed the emotions of the users themselves. brett larson takes a look at facebook's troubles and whether this could become a worrisome trend. >> it was quite a week for social networking giant, facebook. it came out late last week they were conducting a user experiment on over almost 700,000 users without telling them. it was a social experiment to

see if negative or positive comments made you have a negative or positive reaction and what they did find is that exposure to these emotions, just readinging these emotions in your news feed did actually give that outco. if you were reading a lot of negative posts, you tended to have a more negative reaction to what was going on around you. obviously, a lot of backlash about this. the primary backlash is the people involved in this study didn't know. facebook has come out and said it's part of their user agreement, you agree to use the site, it's part of the user experience, they're just trying to better the experience for all of the facebook users around the world. the publisher of the study has come out saying they're a little regretful for involving all these people without telling them. there was no informed consent and also facebook coming out this week sort of saying they're sorry about it, sort of giving an apology at one of the speaker's conferences, one of

the high ups there at facebook issuing a sort of half apology and some interesting stuff we're learning about this, what's interesting is this is the standard for a lot of these websites. all these websites, they want to know how we feel. they want to know what we're doing, they want to know more about us so they can customize that user experience and make us want to come back to those websites more and more. we're just kind of scratching the surface on this, this emotional based advertising. advertisers want to know what kind of mood you're in so they can better approach you. maybe they want to pitch you a vacation, sell you something that's going to put you in a better mood or maybe you're in a bad mood and they want to sell you something that's going to improve your mood or sell you a vacation package that will better your day. they want to know these things about you. this is kind of the standard as we go forward. it's been happening for years and the retail space and the

brick and mortar store, they are laid out to manipulate how we shop, so pay attention. keep reading those end user agreement to see what other things they are learning about you. >> thank you so much. coming up, frozen in time. new images of the underwater interior of the costa concordia that sank in 2012. now, upright and about to be towed away. then you're going to want to see this video. a whale capsizing a boat near san diego. pretty insane images there. wow and terrifying, too. all that, next.

new video coming in to the cnn news room. images of a man believed to be the secretive leader of the isis militants in iraq. he appears to be leading a sermon in the mosque. one of the iraqi cities captured by isis fighters and the second largest city in the country. hundreds of advisers to help the iraqi forces. and taliban militants are claiming responsibility for an attack on hundreds of oil tankers outside of afghanistan's capital of kabul. in all, more than 400 trucks

went up in flames. the taliban said they attackeded the trucks because they were transporting fuel for nato forces. also, pope francis spent a busy day in southern italy despite recent health concerns. crowds were thrilled to see the pope today as he rode through the streets, waving. pope francis seemed strong and stood as he greeted onlookers. the 77-year-old has had to cancel many events, but the vatican denied reports the pope has been ill. wow. and this is real. seems like something out of a movie or something. you could see the terror on that photographer's face. so, this is what happened. a blue whale surfaced, capsizing the boat as you saw everyone turning on is side off the coast

of san diego. on the other side, this is what they saw. the mouth. wide open of a blue whale. the photographer and the other person were not injured, but they were rescued after another boater called for help. extraordinary there. all right, it has been more than two years since the costa concordia cruise ship sank off the coast of itd italy, claiming lives. now, authorities have released underwater footage of the ocean liner. matthew chance has a look. >> these are remarkable new images of the stricken costa concordia. italian police released a footage giving us an unprecedented glimpse of the sunken ocean liner. its hull, twice the size of the titanic's, struck rocks off the italian coast in 2012, with 4,200 passengers and crew on board. 32 of them lost their lives. inside the ship, the divers

record an eerie snapshot of that horror. through the water, smashed doors and seating areas could be made out. even a bar or reception des desk, what was meant to be a pleasure cruised that turned into a nightmare. finally, the crews reached the central aatrium. the attempts had been made to refloat the vessel and float to shore with the ship's captain accused of causing the wreck -- surround i surrounding the sunken ship set to remain. matthew chance, cnn, london. >> what a remarkable view. in a tense situation right now in jerusalem, day s s of a palestinian teenage you are was abducted and killed, an autopsy shows the teen was burned alive and hit in the head and that has sparked outrage. clashes broke out in the streets between palestinian protesters

and israeli security forces after his funeral yesterday. senior international correspondent ben wedeman is in ja rus lem with the latest. >> more details are coming in about the palestinian boy found dead in a jerusalem forest three days ago. according to the palestinian public prosecutor, forensic tests, a report has been issued, which found he had burns on 90% of his body. he received a strong blow to the right side of his head, but the doctors say they found traces of smoke in his lungs, indicating that he was breathing as he was being burned to death. israeli police say they're still ve investigating this case. they hesitate to point either to family dispute or nationalistic reasons, but as far as the family's concerned, there's no doubt about it. this was a revenge killing for

those three israeli teenagers whose bodies were found on monday afternoon. meanwhile, there's a lot of talk in this part of town about the beating of a young man, cousin of mohammed and an american citizen, caught on video where two israeli policemen brutally beating and kicking this young man while his hands were tied behind his back. this incident adding more fuel to the fire that's burning in the part of jerusalem. >> thank you so much. coming up in the cnn news room, the police officer caught on video beating a woman on the side of the highway. was it excessive force? we talked to the eyewitness who caught it all on camera. a yummy reward is important after a good workout

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video of a california highway patrol officer beating a woman on the side of the highway has gone viral and captured the attention of the nation.

by all accounts, we need to warn you, that for some, this story just might be too disturbing to watch. here is sara sidner with the video and the man who caught it all on his cell phone. >> video from a california freeway shot by a driver stunned by what he was seeing unfold. a woman being punched over and over and over again by a california highway patrolman. >> and you see, you heard it, b it was like, thump, thump, thump, then you see her head bouncing on the concrete. >> how many times did he hit her? >> i've seen 11 on the video. he took more shots than that. i think it was around 15 shots to her head and then -- punching. like this is not just jabs, these are hooks. ligs out punches. not like taps. >> the highway patrol report says the woman posed a danger how herself and other drivers because she was walking within traffic lanes at times and when

she was asked to stop, she continued ignoring the officer and ultimately, she becomes physically combative. >> the tape only shows a small part of what transpired. there are events that led up to this. until that's collected and put into perspective, we aren't going to be able to make a determination. >> the eyewitness who goes by the name david diaz says he saw exactly what led up to it. before he started recording. >> you see the video, the first thing you hear is me laughing. the reason why is because before we got the video starting, they were playing like a ring around the rosy behind that red truck. a grown man and woman running around the truck like a benny hill moment. he's trying to get -- it's like when we laugh when someone runs on the field in a baseball game. >> he says she started walkinging towards the officer and that is when the takedown began. >> he grabs her and she does the

resisting in terms of natural reaction, he then grabs her, throws her to the floor, then gets on top of her, which then you would think he's just going wrap her up, call it another day in los angeles. >> he says the woman who carried no i.d. was taken to the hospital for a physical and mental evaluation. >> the report indicated the woman was not injured. >> diaz has a hard time believing that after seeing and hearing this. >> she didn't put up any restraint. she did what anyone else would do, to go like this, to go like this. and now, they say, oh, she's restrained. it's an excuse. we're giving too many excuses. there's no more rationalizing this. we need to stop this. i posted this video. >> we're going to make a determination as to what transpired in this situation. and we will do the right thing. >> the officer involved has been

put on administrative duty while the case is investigated. >> wow. disturbing to watch that. let's bring in our legal guys. they are here, avery and richard. cleveland and new york. you there? richard, i always try and keep up with you. you're in new york. >> i'm in vegas. >> see what i mean? vegas. let's talk about this. the eyewitness said wait a minute, this just seemed uncalled for. anyone would try to defend themselves, but then of course, the highway patrol is saying while this officer is on administrative duty, they're going to look into whether this was justified or excessive force. so, avery, what are the components that chips would be highway patrol would be looking into to determine whether this was right or wrong? >> first of all, patrol did the right thing in putting the

officer on administrative leave. at least based on the video alone and you need much more than that, it strikes me as excessive force. you don't need to in order to accomplish the objective, controlling a particular suspect or offender, you absolutely do not need to go that far. but again, you need context. that's what the patrol's going to be investigating. >> and richard, what we know at least from the fact finding of this is that she was not armed. so, how will it be justified ifs in the kind of force or this is what you use even if somebody is not on, how do you determine whether they really were a threat. >> courts are loaded with excessive force cases. as a result of these, we don't know if this person was injured as a result of this attack by the police officer. >> according to the report, she was told this person was not injured, but -- >> right. >> i would have said hard to

believe. >> you heard the officer speak of that earlier, we need to see what led up to this and what resulted. you can't just look at a snippet. we don't know what happened before and again, excessive force, lot of cases of excessive force, fred. >> okay, thanks so much. we're glad you're able to chime in on that one. we want you to stick around, too, to talk about another case, very shocking in georgia. this involveding a dad there in this picture with his son, the son dies in a hot car. and now, he's facing murder charges. let's talk about that preliminary hearing that was jaw dropping to so many that just took place. we're going to look into this case. keeping a billion customers a year flying, means keeping seven billion transactions flowing. and when weather hits, it's data mayhem.

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shocking new details in the case against justin ross harris. the georgia man charged with felony murder in the death of his son, cooper. the toddler was left in a hot car for seven hours last month in what harris claims was a tragic mistake, but prosecutors say harris led a double life. they allege he sent explicit photos and texts to several women including on the day his son died and did internet searches on living child free. at a hearing thursday, the judge

ruled harris will stand trial. our victor blackwell picks up the story from here. >> what was justin ross harris allegedly doing while his 22 month old son, cooper, suffered in the back of this scorching suv? >> up to six different conversati conversations with different women. the most common term would be sexting. >> raunchy text messages and a plan to kill his son. >> evidence is showing us he's got this whole second life he's living with alternate personalities. >> harris sat shackled and sullen as the detective with the cobb county police department detaileded x-rated messages allegedly exchanged the day cooper died, including with a then 16-year-old girl. >> photos being sent back and forth with these women while the child's in the car. zpl there are photos of his

exposed, erect penis being sent. also, photos of women's breasts. >> no visible reaction from the 33 yerld's wife, who sat with family and supporters in a packed courtroom. >> he was a loving father. he loved his son very much. went on family vacations together and he was a good dad. >> but just five days before cooper's death, detective stoddard says internet searches revealed he watched videos online about the dangers of being trapped in a hot car and that he visited a web form devoted to the child free lifestyle. >> you don't have evidence that he typed in a google search for child free. >> true. >> we're getting so far field from the events of june the 18th. this has got nothing to do with those events. the status of his marriage and

fantasy life has got nothing to do with the events of june the 18th. we're just getting so far field. this isn't relevant to anything. >> judge, this goes to a state of mind in the two weeks leading up to the death of this child. >> so, this occurred within two weeks? >> overrule the objection. >> the detective testified the couple had financial problems and took out life insurance policies on cooper. >> they had two policies on cooper. the first is a $2,000 policy through the home depot. november 2012 is when he signed up for it. >> and was it something he still had at the time to have child's death? >> correct. >> how much? >> $25,000 policy. >> he laid out the strange way he saw harris reacting the day cooper died. >> he started off trying to work himself up. we're watching him on the camera, he's walking around, rubbing his eyes, looked like he was trying to hyper ventilate himself.

no tears, no real emotion except for the huffing. >> through the time you're talking to him about his son and his death, did you ever see any tears? >> no. >> even more bizarre, how witnesses say leanna harris reacted at the day care when she was told cooper was never dropped off. >> in front of several witnesses, she states, ross must have left him in the car. they're like, what, there's no other reason, ross must have -- ross must have left him in the car. and they tried to console her and they're like, no, there's a thousand reasons. he could have taken him to lunch of something, we don't know yet. she's like, no. >> then another shocker. >> were there injuries to the child's face? >> there were. >> what were those? >> there were several marks on the child's face. that would have come from the child or a scratch being made while the child was alive. and then not healing, not scabbing over or anything like

that. and just soon after he passed away. >> were there injuries to the child, the back of his head? >> yes, there were abrasions to the back of the child's head. >> after three hours, judge cox denied harris bond. defense maintaining -- >> it's not criminal negligence. it's a horrible tragedy and an accident. >> victor blackwell, cnn, marietta, georgia. >> let's bring back our legal guys, avery and richard in new york, criminal attorney in las vegas. all right, avery, let me begin with you first. justin ross harris, i mean, this was a preliminary hearing, but it almost felt like a trial underway. his defense attorney was there you know, objecting to a lot of the material that the prosecutor cougs was bringing up, but in your view, how did the defense do in terms of trying to justify

where their client is at this point? >> the defense lawyer did everything he could to try to neutralize it with the exception of putting his client on, which would have been suicidal in terms of incriminating him. but the reality is there isn't much he could do. the facts are so compelling here, the fact that when the day care or child care facility was contacted and the mother found out, this is incredible. when you drop your child off, the facility's going to call you. where's the mother in all of stuff? when they found out the child wasn't at the facility, what did he do? and what possible explanation is there for mr. harris not calling 911? i mean, all the evidence that surfaced at that probable cause hearing is to terribly compelling, i can't fathom what a sensible defense in this case would be. >> and in fact, richard, we heard the police officer talking about how the day care workers

heard the wife say when they said the child wasn't there, that you know, he must have left the baby in the car and that that was the response as opposed to a host of other possibilities that could have been entertained like hey, maybe he and the child are out to lunch. so, richard, does that lay some groundwork in your view that potentially, leanna herself might be facing charges or at least that kind of suspicious response opens the door to further investigating of her. >> the case is still being investigated and when she said that comment, that's coupled with her own searches about this. her statement to him when she saw him, did you say too much and you know, it's just, her comments at the eulogy which were just mind blowing, i think she's going to be indicted next. there's no spousal privilege here, so maybe she's going to cut a deal against the husband.

i'll tell you, fred, this district attorney has taken so much incoming from the community and they put on an overchewhelm case here for intentional murder. they didn't have to do that. these are bare bones probable cause hearings and the d.a. put on an intentional murder case. this is a potential death penalty case. no bail for him. it's overwhelming. avery, they got to, he got an e-mail from the day care center that day and that didn't trip his memory that the child was in the car. the stench was overwhelming in the car. >> that's what's so compelling. >> it was a horrific death. a horrible, painful death. >> and the markings on the child indicating that the level of suffering this child endured this that hot car, which also leads one to wonder, avery, whether torture, a type of charge involving torture might be involved here, particularly

since the some kind of internet search was done. we still don't know by whom exact exactly, but a search was done about the consequences of a child or animal being left in a hot car. >> think about that. the idea of researching the idea of how hot it has to be in order to kill a child in the car, it is mind boggling. every time -- >> five days -- >> every time you start thinking that you have faith in human tae, you' this sort of thing and you wonder how can human beings actually do something like this. >> we know five days before this, he viewed a video online about animal's torturous deaths. >> thanks so much. always love your brilliant legal minds. >> what did you do to joan rivers, fred? >> i know. darn. >> i think she staged that. >> you think so? i've been wondering about the

points of view of a lot of people. was that a stunt. >> it was a stunt. >> okay. you guys call it like you see it, huh? >> yep. >> thank you. i guess i'll get a no the next too many i ask for an interview with her. thanks so much. coming up next hour, kids suspended from preschool. are we setting them up for failure? we take a look at what some are calling the school to prison pipeline. that's coming up when the cnn news room returns right after this. ♪ ♪ fill their bowl with the meaty tastes they're looking for, with friskies grillers. tender meaty pieces and crunchy bites. in delicious chicken, beef, turkey, and garden veggie flavors. friskies grillers.

-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com here are the top stories we're following. the leader of the militant group, isis, has reportedly shown up in iraq. what we know about him and what this means for the crisis in that country. is next. plus, angry protests in california as bus loads of immigrants were set to arrive. we have the latest on where those immigrants ended up and how washington is now responding. and stunning allegations surrounding the tragic death of a little boy left in a hot car. it's quickly turned from what appeared to be a terrible accident to a disturbing legal case. what was revealed this week that made jaws drop, straight ahead.

we begin with that new video that cnn is tracking, images have surface d of a man believe to be the secretive leader of the isis forces in iraq. he appears to be leaving a sermon at a mosque in mosul. a city that was captured last month by insurgents. we understand that u.s. officials are also examining that video for its authenticity. joining me now is cnn military analyst, rick francona and arwa damon in baghdad. so, arwa, let me begin with you. what do we know about how this video surfaced and what was meant from the message of that ser non? >> reporter: well, this video was circulated on twitter by an official isis account.

the video identifies the man as being -- that is how he is now known ever since the organization announced the creation of the fate that extends from iraq to aleppo in syria. in the video, the man is seen bearded with a black turban, a black dress. he is addressing the worshippers. interestingly, you'll notice in the video, the first row of worshippers is blurred. that is because accord tog a witness, those are direct members of his -- it is the time to be fighting the enemies and unbelievers. towards the ending of his sermon, he says you should take up jihad to please god and fight in his name. this came as a great surprise to many gathered at that mosque. this is the first friday of the holy month of ramadan, a time

when the mosque would have been very full. one of the witnesses, a woman on the second floor, describing how she was quivering in fear, crying because of the armed men that were inside the mosque because at that moment, she realized who was the individual who was addressing them. it was only interestingly during the sermon identified as being your new amir, the cell phone network inside mosul also according to eyewitness and others, had been cut off for the better part of the day. and the other worshippers were kept inside the mosque for an hour after he left. all that being said, we cannot independently confirm that this video is authentic or that the man portrayed in it is the man himse himself, but either way, this is clearly at this stage, the face that isis wants the world to see as their new self-declared amir. >> and so, is it believed that

part of the significance of this video, his possible appearance at this time coinciding with the start of ramadan? >> reporter: it could be, but also because the few days ago, the iraqi government had claimed he had been either killed or wounded in battle and this could be the way to send out a bold message that he is alive and well. but also, that isis has such confidence in its own control over this vast terrain that they believe that he can be seen in public. according to this eyewitness, again, he arrived in a number of vehicle, black suvs, tinted windows, men screaming -- a number of armed men with thim hymn as well, so this is clearly a man who at this stage, does believe in the firm grip isis has not only over mosul, but also over vast stretches of

terrain extending to syria. >> all right. thank you so much. let's bring in lieutenant colonel francona here. if it is indeed the case that this heed leader of isis is there in country in iraq, do you see that changing any u.s. strategy, any effort to try to target him, even though we hear from the president there would be no ground troops there being ingauged in battle, that doesn't necessarily mean or does it not, there could be some sort of u.s. arsonal involved in targeting someone like him. >> well, he would be a primary target. of course, you need great intelligence to do that. he takes great security precautions. she said the keyword. confident. he's so confident in his control over this area, he feels he can show up in mosul. this is really a i think disturbing on a lot of fronts

because he has no fear at all of showing up here. i think this is a major step as he is letting the faithful know that he's there and he's in charge. if we could get him, we probably would try, but i don't think we're there yet. i think the president has not authorized anything more than what we're doing. but if these targets present themselves, i think we need to be ready to strike. >> and so, this isis leader, possibly even sending that message that you know, i don't believe that iraqi army or forces are at all a threat to him or to isis and certainly not any of the multinational forces that have committed. >> that's a really good point. you know, if you look at where the iraqi army is, they're boggeded down in tecrete. as general dempsey said, he

doesn't believe the iraqi army has the apablety to reject isis without outside help. there's no reason for baghdadi or -- as he's calling himself, not to show himself in mosul. he regards mosul as his territory now. >> is it your feeling, would it be your gut feeling that he would stay there in mosul for a period of time or that he's just simply descended into the city for this video opportunity and has probably moved out. >> i think that's the case. i think he came in here, made a statement, made his appearance known. these guys are masters of social media. i think he probably feels nor comfortable in what he has declared his temporary capital in syria. so, he's probably safer in syria than in iraq. >> all right. thanks so much and arwa damon, also. appreciate that. it was the first named storm of the atlantic hurricane season. arthur. well, it's getting its second downgrade now. once a category 2 hurricane, it

is now a post tropical cyclone, but the storm is still threatening those in its newest path. winds as high as 65 miles an hour an drenching rain have been forecast for maine and parts of eastern canada. karen mcginnis is tracking the storm for us and is standing by. but first, let's go to alexandera field, who is on jones beach. hard to believe people were worried about the storm, but folks are out there in full force, aren't they? >> reporter: it really is just that perfect beach day and i think a lot of people were thinking they wouldn't get this opportunity. all of it turned out for the best. we know this storm made landfall in north carolina. the impact wasn't as severe as many anticipated and the aftermath is that we've got a beautiful beach day like this. you can see behind me, just thousands of people who have been out here all morning long,

just trying to get the sunshine. this is the biggest travel week of the summer, so concerns about arthur were throwing off a lot of people's plans, but you can see people have made up time, getting back to the beach. even though arthur has cleared out, there is still a big concern from the national weather service about rip currents. we spoke to the life guards who came out here to jones beach this morning. he said that was their primary concern. they say that the conditions here are good. calm. a lot of people are getting in the water now, but up and down the coast in the aftermath of the hurricane, there is the possibility for that rip current. that narrow current that pulls outward from the beach. it's a really strong force. it can pull even the strongest swimmers under. life guards here say that when rip currents are at play, they tend to rescue 10 to 17 people a day. 80% of their water rescues at this beach are generated by rip currents, so this is something that everyone getting in the water needs to be mindful of. look out for those flags, for any warnings here, but otherwise, really nice day to

get out and enjoy the beach. >> hopefully folks don't get caught up in those currents. thanks so much. it may have been weekend, but yes, there are still potential threats along the way. karen mcginnis with us now. help us out. >> now, i know that you're a little jealous of her location -- >> i'm a lot jealous. i want to be at the beach right now. >> if you stay just a few more seconds, i'll show you something interesting. this is all that's left of arthur. it is a post tropical cyclone. it used to be a category 2 hundred, but now, it's just still battering northern sections of maine, new brunswick. nova scotia has been holding their own today. look at this coastline. looks pretty good. and this is what i want to show you, fred. this is is the outer banks. and they jumped the camera

around. o obxca obxcams.com. a few minutes ago, we were watching people and someone was flying a kite, still breezy, but the temperature is upper 70s, low 80s. >> they're not in the water. they know it's still dangerous. >> and that is key. you can visualize this. i grew up at the beach and when we see something like this, we knew there was the undertow, the undertowed as we used to say and this very dangerous situation. you just kind of swim parallel to the shore and that will bring you in. but let's show you what is happening. >> i thought you would enjoy that. when i was looking at that, ifrs actually feeling the breeze. >> there is a breeze there. but across the southeast, temperatures have still pretty warm. out west, we've got 90s

everywhere. it's just blazing hot. even after tomorrow after you've enjoyed your july 4th holiday, what's left of it, 36 hours ago, that hurricane came on shore as a category 2 and now, we were just showing you people at the beach. it's incredible. >> it really is. i'm glad folks are able to actually be at the beach even if they can't get in the water. sometimes, just being there just makes you feel good. thanks so much. i like that undertowed. watch out for that undertowed. and then there's the contrast of this 4th of july weekend. a rather stormy moment so to speak as a nation of immigrants gets caught in the middle of a crisis on the border. a second flight of immigrants arrived friday from texas. >> they're americans, too. they're not here -- >> they're breaking the law!

>> and this was the storm that i speak of. protesters gathering again friday in marietta, california, where they physically blocked three bus loads of immigrants earlier in the week and then this time, the buses steered clear of that area and instead, headed to a facility in san diego. sunlen joins us now from the white house. the white house knows this is on the horizon. there is only going to be more conflict and people talking about it and putting pressure on this administration and others to address it in some way. what do we understand is on the agenda for the president and the white house later this week, next week? >> well, what's interesting, first and foremost, he's been issued a challenge from republican texas governor rick perry, who's invited president obama to the border next week to see this influx of immigrants firsthand. now, the president will already be in texas next week for fund-raisers, austin and dallas on wednesday and thursday and the white house responded to

this challenge from perry saying that the white house and the president is already, are already very attuned to the challenges of the border. so to speak, he doesn't have to visit the border firsthand to know those problems. but i should point out that it's not just republican, it's democrats as well. two congressional democrats from the most southern congressional districts in texas have also asked president obama to come firsthand and visit the border while he's there, but again, the white house says no plans to have a sideline from his fund raising trip. yesterday at the white house, there was a powerful event here, a naturalization ceremony for 25 new american citizens that president obama watched and while he was there, he spoke broadly about immigration reform, here's what he said. >> if we want to keep attracting the best and brightest from beyond our shores, we're going to have to fix our immigration system, which is broken, and pass common sense immigration reform. we shouldn't be making it hard

er for the best and brightest to come here and create jobs and dproe her economy. we should be making it easier. >> it will be interesting to see if the political pressure grows and continues to mount on president obama before his trip to texas. >> all right, it will be interesting indeed. thanks so much. >> a father is sitting in jail accused of leaving his child to die in a hot car. a hearing this week was simply shocking. what's now come out of the search warrants, next. ♪ f provokes lust. ♪ it elicits pride... ...incites envy... ♪ ...and unleashes wrath. ♪ temptation comes in many heart-pounding forms. but only one letter. "f". the performance marque from lexus.

it was a court hearing that simply stunned everybody this week. a father accused of intentionally leaving his 22 month old child in a hot car all day long. that little boy, cooper, died last month in georgia and at a hearing this week, police

revealed what harris, the father, was doing while his son was in the car. >> did you uncover anything and what he was doing during that day while his child was out in the car? >> yes. the most common term would be sexting. >> justin ross harris there facing murder trials involving the death of his son and that that you just heard from that police officer was allegedly with six different women. then details about harris' internet history, things like child free websites. and warnings about animals dying in hot cars. and in one jaw droppinging moment, what harris' wife apparently said to him after the police interview. >> did his wife ever say anything to him about what he said to police? >> she asked him, she had him sit down and he starts going through this and she's like, well, did you say too much? >> nick has been following this story, you got a look at the

search warrants in the case. what was revealed? >> all of this looks really bad on both parents. we got new search warrants and that sort of lays out the same narrative that there's probable cause and bond hearing. we got more about his finances. he had accrued a $4,000 credit card debt. his wife was upset. he had taken over the family finances and she was upset about how he managed the finances. he also started a business on the side. we don't know quite what it was, but he was trying to make money on the side, then there was this nugget of information. it says through the investigation, harris made comments to family about a life insurance policy on cooper and what they needed to do to file for it. two policies. one standard, we get a life insurance policy through employer, the other, a $25,000 policy. prosecutors framing it as

motive. his friends and we talked about this last week, adamant that a man like this, this moral fiber, a christian man, would never do something like this. prosecutors are looking at it as something way more sinister than this. we're still waiting on the toxicology report. >> we heard from the police officer who talked about the sexting, the relationships, the exchange of photos between he and other women. >> six other women. >> on the same day, in some cases, while the child was dying in the car and there was an objection on that, the relevance of it. the supporting response was it speaks to motivation. >> we also saw the detective backtrack, too, when the defense attorney questioned him about financial turmoil in the family. were there creditors calling? letters for the house and he

took it a step back. we saw him more an mississippi stated. a lot of that stuff that came out will not be allowed in the regular hearing. they're trying to prove that motive in that probable cause hearing, intent. that he has that first degree, this murder charge levelled against him. >> so, a lot of this will not end up in the trial, but at the same time, one has to wonder whether the prosecution was holding back anything, saving it for trial or is it incumbent upon the prosecution to reveal everything at this point. >> sure, they must are something more because on the surface, i've spoken to defense attorneys. it's clear this has something for for them. they've got to have something more than this. the defense attorney even said you have no proof my client search searched these things, so a lot is going to come out. this is a very case, nuance case, complicated case. >> it was a -- i think universally, that was a very troubling hearing. very revealing.

it was quite extraordinary. thanks so much. keep us posted on this next step in all this. and he is being held without bond. >> that's right. >> thanks so much. police now are raiding convenience stores for synthetic drugs. not because they're illegal, but because they just might be fuelling terrorist operations in the middle east. that's next in the news room.

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for law enforcement officials, tracking down terrorists sometimes means following the money and that hunt has led authorities to some unlikely places. the connection between synthetic drugs sold in the u.s. and terrorism. deb? >> fred, federal authorities are concerned that the next source of terrorist funding could come from a very unlikely places. convenience stores right here in the united states. you're not supposeded to enjest these, but people do. synthetic drugs known on the street as fake pot. small pockets with the names like scooby snacks, spice. >> it's synthetic poison. >> for the last year, federal drug agents have been raiding gas stations across america. not because the drugs are

necessarily illegal, but because the money officials believe is going overseas to fund terrorism. >> we have seized over $100 million worth of assets. we have arrested hundreds of individuals all around the united states. we have seized guns all over the place. >> usually sold as herbs not for con sumgts, the drugs are made in china with proceeds going to criminal organizations. >> if a mimi mart is operating in our country and they're sending 40, 50, $60 million bark we're concerned about that. >> tens of millions of dollars. the bulk of the money according to the dea, going to places like yemen, syria and lebanon. >> as state sponsorship has declined, terrorism fueled by criminal activity is on the rise. >> while the dea acknowledges there's no smoking gun tieing synthetic drug money from the

u.s. to terrorists, he says the existing evidence paints a clear picture. >> the terrorists need money to finance their operations. they need money for lodgistic, recruiting, training. you can thot do that with american express and visa. you need a suitcase of cash. >> the global drug trade produces plenty of that. according to the u.n. some $300 billion and counting. synthetic drug use appears to be growing in the u.s. about half those patients were teenagers. fred? >> all right, thanks so much. next, a disturbing look inside our nation's schools. are children as young as preschool being put on a fast track to prison? it starts with suspensions and black boys are suspended three times more often than white boys.

here's a look at the current rates.

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bottom of the hour now. welcome back. here are the top stories. quarterfinals continuing at the world cup. right now, argentina leads belgium 1-0 in the second half. at 4:00 this afternoon, the netherlands taking on costa rica. germany and brazil move to the semifinals with wins friday, but brazil lost star forward neymar for the rest of tournament when he was kneed in the back, suffering a broken vertebrae. a must marine's pregnant wife is missing. 19-year-old erin corwin was last seen leaving 29 palms marine base in california a week ago today. she was on her way to joshua tree national park at the time.

her car has been found. deputies are not ruling out foul play. her mother flew out to help in the search for her daughter. >> my gut was just tore up. you feel like you're walking a nightmare. >> corwin is three months pregnant and lives with her husband on the marine base in california. and the royal family was on hand to kick off the super bowl of bicycle racing today. this year, the tour de france will actually get started or did get started in england. it's not unusual for the race to pass through neighboring countries. in fact, two years ago a, the tour began in belgium. the 21-stage race finishes in paris on july 27th. the school to prisen pipeline is very realful that's not a claim from a super liberal think tank, it's from the secretary of education.

sara sidner looks at the numbers and how folks are trying to change things. >> if i say cat -- >> in the hat. >> 4-year-old j.j. and his 3-year-old brother are doing what children their age do. running and playing one minute, pushing the next. >> stop. >> when they act up at home, they are disciplined. >> i think they're typical 4 and 3-year-olds. >> but at school -- >> he's been disciplined about five times. at 3. i can't make this up. he win hit one of the teachers on the arm and they sent him home. they considered that to be a danger to the staff. >> the most recent report says 7500 children nationwide were suspended at least once from public preschool. yes, preschool. the alarming numbers also say black students are being suspended and excelled at a rate three times greater than white kids across all grades. >> we know there is a correlation between doing out of

school suspensions and expulsions and ultimately locking kids up. too many children in the communities, the school to prison pipeline is real and the fact it starts as young as 4 again simply isn't good enough. >> in los angeles, america's second largest school district, john daisy finds the trend disturbing. >> i think they're the same bias in society. i don't think this, i think this is a reflection of the growth we have yet to do in this country. around these issues. >> what shocked him, the reason. the majority of suspensions in his district were for something called willful defiance. >> failure to do homework. failure to bring your notebook to class. >> that's not willful defiance. that's add slens. >> a year ago, the district became the first in the nation to remove willful defiance as a reason for suspensions and the numbers have dropped ever since. three years ago, there were

19,000 suspensions. this year, 8,000. the teacher's union never took a stance, with some teachers saying willful defiance has been abused and others saying it takes an important tool away. >> i teach my kids all the time, education is your passport. >> she learned that the hard way. as the daughter of a drug addicted father, she struggled in school and life. >> i was expelled from school when i was 3 years old, in preschool. and when i first got the phone call about j.j., i immediately thought back to that. you know, at a young age, i was told i was a bad kid in school. >> she proved them wrong. eventually got her college degree, wrote a book and became an accomplished public speaker. even giving a ted talk. the powells have worked hard to

make a good life for their children. >> my biggest fear is that they'll be label and believe it. >> every day, she fights to inspire her boys. more of a preschool to premed mentality. than preschool to prison. sara sidner, cnn, omaha. >> so, what are the inequities in our schools? are degrees of punishment dictated by race and really, what's next from studies that reveal this kind of information? joining me now is professor sean harper with the study of race and equity of education. so, professor, do you know of my school districts making a concerted effort to diversify its teaching staff and to help address the despairty and suspensions and expulsions since we learned in this piece that a big problem is you've got white teachers and mostly white female

teachers who are disp disproportionally suspended black males. >> so, i think it's great that what we heard in the piece from los angeles about the doing away with the willful defiance clause. i think that's one really good step. another district that is doing great work, i recently read in the macon telegraph about a school this forsythe, georgia, that is making positive steps toward reculturing the school around discipline. that particular story talked about young man who had been suspended from school five times, but yet, the school did this amazing turn around with this culture and that particular young man actually graduated from high school. >> so, when you hear educators say that suspension is a disciplinary tool, is it your view that it is either a,

overused or is it that b, you know, suspension or expulsions, that's not discipline, but instead, it's destructive. how do you address those two issues? >> absolutely. so, suspension for sure does very little to bolster student achievement and to help improve things like graduation rates and so on, so one reason why students are often suspended from school is for true ensy. well, suspending a kid for not coming to school is certainly not going to help him or her do better academically, right? so, oftentimes, suspension is used as a a punishment as opposed to a teachable moment, an opportunity for restorative justice and for getting kids to think more critically about prominent behaviors this their

schools. >> and on the issue of race, if an issue is a shortage of nonwhite female teachers, then what? if anything is done in the interim to help schools come up with improved policies to discourage black boys from being targeted or disproportionately disciplines to further diversify the pool of teachers. >> as you noteded earlier, the overwhelming majority of k 12 teachers are white, white women, so i think what we have here is a both and opportunity. sure, we absolutely need more teachers of color, but we need teachers of color who don't come into schools with the same sort of deficit criminalized notions of black kids that we know some white teachers do. so we need that. but we also need some serious intervention and professional

development for the over 80% of white teachers who do things to criminalize black boys, who enter the teaching profession with undisrupted biases about who black students are. cnn excluded of course, but when we think about media representations of black folk, they're usually not positive, so white teachers enter schools of education and often time, leave to enter the workforce with unchecked assumptions about who black people are, the communities from which we come and so on and those kinds of thinkings lead to what we see in discipline, referrals to principal's offices and so on. >> appreciate you. thanks so much. >> thank you. all right, coming up. need a place to visit in the

u.s. of a.? i know it's the holiday weekend, but people are starting to think about their other summer vacation destinations and beyond. we'll show you some of the most spectacular places in the u.s. 50 spots in 50 states, next. when folks think about what they get from alaska, they think salmon and energy. but the energy bp produces up here creates something else as well: jobs all over america. engineering and innovation jobs. advanced safety systems & technology. shipping and manufacturing. across the united states, bp supports more than a quarter million jobs. when we set up operation in one part of the country, people in other parts go to work. that's not a coincidence. it's one more part of our commitment to america.

san bernardino county, california, experienced three earthquakes within one minute of each other the other day and the u.s. geological survey says a 4.8 quake was reported in running spring, then a minute later, a 4.6 was reported near big lake and then a minute later, a smaller quake near big bear lake measures 2.7 and it happened around 1:00 eastern. the quakes triggered a rock slide, but no injuries have been reported. with millions of americans on vacation this holiday weekend, we thought it would be timely to help you find some of the most spectacular places in the united states that you may want to visit this summer perhaps or by labor day, who knows. it's your choice. our friends at cnn.com have put together a magnificent photo gallery that you can scroll through and there's information on how you can actually celebrate the awe, the beauty

and uniqueness of each location. brandon helped develop this travel package. he's speaking from experience when sharing these incredible places. we're only going to do a handful because there's so much from which to choose. let's begin in california. these magnificent trees that really becomes a focal point of this destination. >> yes, the redwoods, several hours north of san francisco, are just this majestic place where the trees are hundreds of feet high. they're up to 2,000 years old. some of them are so wide they're as wide as a house. there are some that have tunnels. you can actually drive your car through them and we focused on a place called avenue of the giants, where you can drive through this narrow highway in the middle of the redwoods, no shoulders, no guardrails, the

trees are right up against the road and it's unlike any other highway you'll ever drive. >> very peaceful. i would like to see the redwood forest at some point. florida, the everglades and being amongst the gators, but what's unique about this is the whole diving notion. that, i haven't done. i'm not interested in that one, but tell me. that's for the true daredevil. >> the everglades are the largest area east of the mississippi. a big river and marsh land and full of birds, snake, panthers and lots of gators. there are not a lot of places where you can see alligators in the wild, but we found one called shark valley, where you can go, take a tram tour, walk on a 15-mile loop. ride a bike. >> i've done the airbuses. airboats. >> right. which is another great option. >> so scary. >> but there are gators everywhere and you can see them

in their natural habitat. you can get pretty close to them and still feel safe. you're up a little bit above the marsh, so you'll be okay. >> it's pretty scary, but it's exciting. then there's new jersey, the garden state, and you are helping us to look at the garden state really very intimately. this picture really speaks to that motto. >> people think of new jersey and you think of maybe the opening of a sopranos where tony soprano was driving through this sofrt industrial land scale with refineries. we picked a very different part of the state up in the northeastern corner along the pennsylvania border. the delaware river. cuts through there and it's called the delaware water gap. there are beautiful, gorges, hiking, water falls, the appalachain trail runs through there for about 27 miles. >> nice and then go back out west now. south dakota and then utah. which is really one of my favorite states. i just love that place, too.

>> south dakota, we picked bad lands national park, which a lot of people don't go to. it's about an hour, hour and a half east of mt. rushmore. a lot of folks just skip it. it's right off the intertate is. you can pull over. there are lookouts where you can look down on this looks like another planet. >> kind of got a grand canyon look to it. >> these miniature rock formations and if the kids are restless, they can get out an run around. it's like a big, natural playground. >> beautiful stuff. thank you so much. can we get a quick shot of utah before we go? there you go. and peaceful. lovely. all right. well, hey, lots of food for thought there as we try to make our summer travel plans or maybe the fall. we got to appreciate the united states. >> that's right. there's a lot of beauty here. >> and what a way to celebrate the independent of this beautiful nation.

thanks so much. still to come we will talk women's final at wimbledon. it featured the first canadian ever. oh, to take the crown there. and it was also over very quickly. >> game! ♪ f provokes lust. ♪ it elicits pride... ...incites envy... ♪ ...and unleashes wrath.

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new queen of the grass courts today. christina mcfarlane is in london for us. tell us more about bouchard making history today for o' canada. >> it's a truly thrilling women's final here today with two very different finalists. petra kvitova who won the title in 2011, she's had to go through some really tricky matches over the past. she defeated venus williams back in the third round here and she was up against the young 20-year-old canadian bouchard who is after her first-ever grand slam win but it wasn't to

be for us because petra kvitova blew her tlarch in straight sets, 6-3 and 6-0 in what was the fastest ever wimbledon final to have been held here since martina and martina was on the court here to witness the event. kvitova said it felt like magic on the court and couldn't believe the shots she was making and we couldn't believe it either. it was a very quick and powerful final for her today. >> fantastic! not to take away from the shine of this moment for eugenie but i have to ask you did serena. earlier in the week, serena had

quite the health scare. is there any update on her situation and why she got dizzy or light-headed and missing in the timing of her swing? >> reporter: yeah. well, as you know, earlier this week, we heard she was suffering from a viral infection. a lot of speculation the past couple of days but no one has come out and confirmed if anything different has happened since then, if anything has moved on. martina came out and a lot of questions asked why serena was allowed to play given her condition. we know she is now home but we are not entirely certain and no word from the williams camp just yet if the condition has worsened or if it is an viral infection. some concern but she looks forward to being back here at

wimbledon next year. so we hope to see the world number one back and fighting fit. >> absolutely. we wish her the best and a full recovery. thank you, christina macfarlane there. appreciate it. we will be right back. i've had surgery, and yes, i have occasional constipation. that's why i take doctor recommended colace capsules. [ male announcer ] for certain medical conditions where straining should be avoided, colace softens the stool for effective relief from occasional constipation. go to colacecapsules.com for savings.

take a look at one of the most famous speeches in american history. it was july fourth, 1939, that lou gehrig delivered his emotional farewell speech at yankees stadium. he was forced to retire because he had als also known as lou gehrig's disease. major league baseball is remembering his speech. take a look. ♪ >> for the past two weeks you have been reading about the bad break i got. yet today i consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth. i have been in ballparks for 17 years and have never received

anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans. when you look around, wouldn't you consider it a privilege to associate yourself with such a fine looking man as standing here in this ballpark today? look at these grand men. which of you wouldn't consider it the highlight of his career just to associate with them for even one day? sure, i'm lucky. who wouldn't consider it an honor to have known jacob ruppert? also, the builder of baseball's greatest empire, ed barrow? to have spent six years with that wonderful fellow, miller huggins? then to have spent the next nine years with that outstanding leader, that smart student of psychology, the best manager in baseball today, joe mccarthy? sure, i'm lucky. when the new york giants, a team you would give your right arm to beat, and vice versa, sends you a gift -- that's something.

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